There is, however, a third factor behind Americans’ anger, and it isn’t getting nearly as much attention as it should. There has been a catastrophic decline in health insurance coverage combined with sharply rising premiums for many of those who have managed to hang on to their coverage. And this, too, is all on Trump.
Here’s what happened: Trump and his congressional minions refused to renew the expanded subsidies that had made health insurance affordable for millions of Americans during the Biden years. At the same time the One Big Beautiful Bill imposed punitive work requirements that made it far more difficult for families to obtain Medicaid coverage.
And we haven’t felt the full effect of these changes yet — Republicans tried to backload the effects of the OBBB so that much of the pain will come after the midterms. But the consequences of this attack on healthcare have already been dire.
By June 2026 enrollment in Medicaid and the Childrens’ Health Insurance Program had declined by more than 6 million since January 2025; 2.5 million of those losing coverage were children. KFF estimates that enrollment in individual plans, mainly via the Affordable Care Act, was down almost 5 million by June. The redoubtable Charles Gaba, putting these numbers together with other information, estimates that around 12 million Americans have lost health insurance under Trump 2.0.
That’s a lot of lost coverage, even in a nation as big as ours. And because many of the savage cuts Trump and his allies have imposed on healthcare have yet to kick in, the situation will get much worse in the years ahead. It’s worth noting thatkicking children off healthcare coverage is especially personally and socially destructive because it compromises their health and earnings potential for their entire lifetimes.
Paul Krugman, Substack Oct 21 2026
Health insurance CEO shooting unleashes Internet vitriol aimed at industry
X-energyAmerican Electric Power, Amazon and X-energy announced on Oct. 19 that they are exploring a 960-megawatt advanced nuclear project at the former Breed Generating Station coal plant site in Sullivan County, Indiana. The initial design calls for 12 X-energy Xe-100 small modular reactors rated at 80 megawatts each. It is a feasibility effort, not a finished deal, and the companies gave no construction or operating dates
British oil major BP reported a second-quarter profit of $5.73 billion, almost double that of the same period last year and higher than forecasts predicted. BP saw its highest quarterly net profit since the third quarter of 2022, and second-quarter profits across all units surpassed expectations.
The fossil fuel lead at the international NGO Global Witness, Patrick Galey, stated, “BP’s sky-high profits are a scandalous reminder of who’s been cashing in on human misery this year. While wildfires threaten communities across the world, drought bites and energy costs spiral, ordinary families are paying the price for big oil’s prioritisation of shareholder wealth over a livable planet.” Galey added, “It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. oil major Chevron reported its highest quarterly profit in at least six years, surpassing analyst estimates. Chevron posted adjusted earnings of $12 billion, with $8.2 billion from upstream operations, marking a 200% increase compared to the previous year.
Chevron’s Chief Financial Officer, Eimear Bonner, said in an interview, “Amid all the geopolitical uncertainty and market volatility that’s still upon us, we continue to deliver the reliable energy that the world has needed.”
While oil company CEOs defend their record profits, many others are criticising the earnings that come at a time when consumers are facing rising inflation and other economic challenges. Even U.S. President Donald Trump critiqued oil firms for profiting from high oil prices, which came as a surprise to many due to Trump’s unwavering support for oil and gas.
On August 3, President Trump criticised the U.S. oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron for making “too much money” on high crude prices. “They’re making too much money based on a shortage,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I don’t like it, and I should be the last one to say because I’m a big free enterprise guy — nobody bigger.”
The record profits experienced by oil and gas companies in the wake of the Iran war have led to backlash from environmentalists, consumers, and political leaders, as governments worldwide float the possibility of introducing or increasing windfall taxes on higher-than-normal earnings.
A new book claims Russian military intelligence broke into Jared Kushner’s personal iPhone in 2017.
The book says Dutch intelligence flipped a Russian hacker and accessed images from Kushner’s phone screen.
Author Matthew Cole alleges Kushner used Dubai-linked accounts tied to about $1.75 billion.
Kushner denies the claims, and his lawyer says the accounts do not exist.
Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff.
Dutch intelligence services learned that their Russian counterparts had broken into Jared Kushner’s iPhone in 2017. So they flipped a GRU spy and got access to the device – and Kushner’s secret dealings in the Middle East – themselves. Donald Trump’s son-in-law denies the explosive claims.
The story of how Kushner was essentially double-owned by the Russians and the Dutch is laid out in a new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole, a renowned American investigative journalist.
Back in 2017, Kushner was in charge of Middle East peace negotiations and, more generally, held the post of Trump’s top advisor. Naturally, foreign intelligence services were very interested.
CORRUPTIONLAND releases Tuesday, October 27, with new revelations about the president, his enablers in Congress, and their abuses of power
WASHINGTON — October 22, 2026 —DEFIANCE.org announced it will release CORRUPTIONLAND — an explosive documentary about the corruption of the federal government under President Donald Trump — one week before Election Day. The film will be free to the public beginning Tuesday, October 27 at 12:00 noon ET at CORRUPTIONLAND.org and on various streaming platforms. The announcement was first made last night on MS NOW’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
ICE launches California immigration crackdown. Newsom calls it ‘campaign of fear’ By Darrell Smith October 8, 2026 12:20 PM
The Trump administration is launching waves of ICE immigration operations across California over the next 45 days, the Washington Examiner reported this week.
Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the statewide raids weeks before November’s midterm elections as a “campaign of fear.” Dubbed internally as “Operation Safe California,” the Examiner reported, the enforcement began several days ago in the San Diego area, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ordering its field agents to arrest all immigrants they meet, criminal history or not.
The operation has not been publicly announced, but was met with fiery reaction from Newsom. He accused the White House of stoking fear in the state’s immigrant communities as millions of Californians prepare to head to the polls.
According to the Examinet, an unnamed source told the newspaper that ICE officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.”
Immigrant rights groups in Northern and Central California have reported increased sightings of ICE activity. On Monday, a father was arrested at a Santa Maria community college while dropping off his daughter for her freshman year. “This is exactly what I warned would happen last year. Trump is using mass deportations to TERRORIZE diverse communities out of legally voting — ordering his secret police to ‘go after everybody,’” Newsom posted on X, in apparent reference to the government crackdown. “Donald, your campaign of fear will FAIL. The American people will NOT be intimidated!”
Sources told the Examiner that officers in San Diego, and others in Los Angeles and San Francisco, would move through Los Angeles and north to San Francisco by November. The Sacramento group NorCal Resist earlier Thursday cited a “heavier than normal ICE presence in our region today,” in posts to social media.
A federal court in California *just* issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the administration (i.e. DHS) from:
“a. Conducting elections-related field operations and field interviews in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin that involve or are likely to involve persons whom the Enjoined Parties know, suspect, or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens; and
b. Conducting elections-related field operations in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin based wholly on TECS records generated from the Voter Eligibility Matching Policy, as identified in this Order, against persons whom the Enjoined Parties know, suspect, or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens.”
Now, let me quickly ‘splain the key language there: “or should reasonably know or suspect”.
As you will see in the hot-off-the-docket opinion and order (included for Notes from the Front members), these sweeps targeting alleged voter fraud by alleged non-citizens were being conducted based on flawed, questionable, and “where the heck did they actually get that” data, including *advertising and marketing* databases!
Therefore the “should reasonably know or suspect” net is really important here.
It basically means that if you’re not *damn sure* that someone is not actually a U.S. citizen, and you attempt to monkey with them and intimidate them over voting, you’ve just violated the injunction.
(And no, this administration by and large is *not* ignoring or violating court orders!)
The order is stayed until *this* Friday (10/23) to give the administration a (very short) window to appeal.
“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi”
William Faulkner, Novelist About this Quote Faulkner doesn’t offer Mississippi as a postcard; he offers it as a wound you can read. The line flatters the local while quietly indicting it: if you want to grasp “the world,” start with a place where history is so concentrated it feels radioactive. Mississippi becomes his test case for modernity’s contradictions – beauty yoked to brutality, intimacy bound up with violence, community built on exclusion.
The specific intent is polemical in a novelist’s key. Faulkner is defending the value of the provincial against the cosmopolitan shrug: you don’t learn humanity by escaping “backward” places, you learn it by staring at them until they stop being caricatures. The subtext is harsher. Mississippi isn’t merely representative; it’s exemplary in the way a crime scene is exemplary. It’s where the American myths of honor, piety, and progress are most nakedly at war with slavery’s afterlife, with caste, with the politics of forgetting.
Context matters because Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County – his fictionalized Mississippi – is basically a world system in miniature. He writes in the long shadow of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause narrative machine, with the South performing innocence while living off stolen labor and inherited violence. The line works because it’s both invitation and dare: if you can understand how a society rationalizes what it can’t justify, how it turns trauma into tradition, you’re already most of the way toward understanding everywhere else.”
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Ongoing, the case of Nolan Wells, symbolic of “White Comfort over Black Lives” as grieving mother rebuked those who had shown no interest in pursuing how her son had died in mysterious circumstances. It was said he had drowned but autopsy showed no water in his lungs.
Nolan Wells’ autopsy found no water in lungs; data was deleted from his phone the day he disappeared, experts say
CSIS estimated, as reported by RFE/RL, that U.S. Patriot PAC-3 MSE stocks fell from more than 2,300 before the Iran conflict began in February to roughly 800.
The Pentagon’s January framework aims to raise annual PAC-3 MSE output from about 600 to 2,000; analysts quoted say that will take until at least 2030.
Boeing said on October 5 that Lockheed Martin awarded it an undefinitized contract action valued at about $14.7 billion for seven years of PAC-3 MSE seeker production.
Hegseth called a CNN report on dangerously low inventories ‘fake news’; unnamed U.S. officials told RFE/RL and NPR the CSIS estimates broadly reflect the current state.
Patriot interceptors are among the most sought-after weapons in the world, and there are not enough of them. Ukraine says it received a third as many air-defense interceptors this year as in the same period of 2025, the United States is reported to have used more than half of its stock in the Iran conflict, and Gulf states want theirs replaced too. This explainer lays out the numbers and the production bottlenecks, with each figure attributed. It follows our reports on Russia’s mass attack on Ukraine and Germany’s new aid for Kyiv.
What the estimates say
A CSIS report, as summarized by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on August 6, estimated that the United States used more than half of its Patriot PAC-3 MSE and THAAD interceptor inventories in operations against Iran this year. It put PAC-3 MSE stocks at roughly 800, down from more than 2,300 before the conflict began in February, with THAAD stocks nearly halved. Mark Cancian of CSIS told RFE/RL that war planners ‘don’t want to go below’ about 800 to 900.
Defense News, in a July 10 report, said the U.S. fired between 1,060 and 1,430 Patriots in the war with Iran at roughly $3.9 million apiece, far more than the hundreds Ukraine received from all Western allies over four years. The government’s public position is different in tone: RFE/RL reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called a CNN report of ‘dangerously low’ inventories ‘fake news’ and that President Donald Trump wrote that the U.S. has ‘massive’ amounts of munitions. Unnamed administration officials told RFE/RL the CSIS estimates broadly reflect current inventories.
“The President has the most effective endorsement in American, or international, political history,” said Vance, when asked in an interview if he would also be extending an endorsement ahead of the election on Oct. 27. “I endorse American candidates and that’s where I’m focused on, is the midterms, so I’m not getting involved in the Israeli elections.”
When pushed for an answer, Vance added: “I’m not anti-endorsing [Netanyahu], I’m not pro-endorsing him.”
Vance’s response stood in stark contrast to Trump’s endorsement, as he put his “complete and total” support behind the Israeli leader, while praising his endurance as a “great warrior” Prime Minister.
Referencing the Iran war, Trump said: “If Israel has the wrong leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi [Netanyahu], America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so.” He went on to say that Netanyahu has been “strong, brave, and brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel” and “despite all of that, he has endured.”
Many are viewing the Israeli election as a referendum on Netanyahu, who has faced heavy criticism over his handling of the Hamas-led attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The subsequent Israel-Hamas war has led to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Netanyahu’s government has also been called to task over the reports of settler violence against Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.
Ahead of the elections, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly met with Netanyahu on Monday during an unannounced visit to Israel, Axios said, citing two sources with knowledge.
The Pentagon declined to comment when contacted. TIME has also reached out to the Israeli embassy and Netanyahu’s office for comment.
Vance, meanwhile, has previously issued warnings to Israel regarding its relationship with the U.S. In June, he chastised members of Bibi’s cabinet who had voiced disapproval over Washington negotiating with Tehran to end the Iran war, which started in February with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes.
“Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world’s superpower,” Vance said as he led a White House press briefing. “If I was in the Cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”
While Vance has said his focus is on American candidates ahead of the U.S. midterms, he has previously campaigned avidly overseas.
Vance’s campaigning for international candidates
Vance traveled to Hungary in April ahead of parliamentary elections as the Trump Administration put its full support behind then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was up for re-election against opposition leader Péter Magyar. (Pro-European conservative Magyar went on to win the election, ending Orbán’s 16-year rule.)
“Together the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Hungary have been able to do amazing things,” Vance told reporters at a press conference in Budapest. “We want to build upon those amazing things. And of course, I want to help as much as I possibly can, the Prime Minister, as he faces this election season.” Vance later delivered remarks at a rally for Orbán.
Vance also notably met with Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, in February 2025, days before a German election.
During that trip, Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference and used the platform to voice his concerns about Europe, claiming that free speech across the continent was “in retreat.”
He criticized what is known as the “firewall” approach in Germany—the agreement among other political parties that they will not work with the AfD. “Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There is no room for firewalls,” he said.
President Trump’s complicated relationship with Netanyahu
Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu comes after the pair have shared an, at times, contentious relationship in recent months.
Asked about possible endorsement last week, Trump told reporters “we haven’t even thought about it,” prompting many to wonder if he may stay silent ahead of the consequential Israeli election.
In June, Trump told reporters that Netanyahu has to be “more responsible with respect to Lebanon,” amid concerns the renewed fighting with Hezbollah could derail the U.S.-Iran peace agreement. (Which later collapsed in light of continued clashes over the Strait of Hormuz.)
“I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah,” Trump told reporters at the G7 summit in France. “It just goes on forever,” he continued, seemingly referencing the exchanging of strikes between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group. “When that happens, it throws a negative light on the big deal, the deal with Iran.”
Trump said he has an “unbelievable relationship” with Netanyahu, but claimed “Israel would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not gotten involved.”
Days before his public remarks, Trump reportedly called Netanyahu “f-cking crazy” during a fraught phone call after Netanyahu ordered an attack on a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut in retaliation for alleged attacks on Israel by Hezbollah.
How Qatar, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia are deepening defence ties
Experts say conflicts and uncertainty are accelerating efforts to strengthen regional military capacity.
The ‘Badr’ project agreement was signed in the Qatari capital, Doha, between Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkiye on October 21, 2026 [Handout/Turkish Defence Ministry via Al Jazeera]
Qatar, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia signed a deal on Wednesday to deepen their defence industry cooperation, reflecting a broader effort by countries in the region to widen their network of security partners amid the prolonged US-Israel war with Iran.
The four countries signed the memorandum of understanding in Doha, building on existing military projects through joint production, technology transfers and more closely integrated supply chains.
The initiative comes as the failure of the United States and Iran to reach a concrete peace agreement pushes countries in the region to diversify their defence partnerships and look beyond what experts described as an overreliance on Washington for their security. But they stress that closer cooperation does not mean abandoning long-standing alliances…….
NATO has expanded from 12 founding members in 1949 to 32 members today. The alliance’s enlargement accelerated after the Cold War with the inclusion of former Warsaw Pact nations. Finland and Sweden joined in 2023-2024 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Details: Sybiha said there is almost no food left in Oleshky, and reports indicate that some civilians are being forced to survive by eating grass and weeds.
Medicines, clean water, electricity and medical care are also becoming increasingly difficult to access. Children are among those living in these conditions.
But the Trump regime sides with Russia and ignores their plight.
Blockade of Oleshky
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city of Oleshky, located in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson Oblast in Ukraine, has been experiencing a worsening food crisis, as placement of land mines and drone attacks have disrupted supplies of food and medicine. The situation has been exacerbated by the fact, that only people who agreed to receive Russian citizenship have reportedly been qualified as eligible to receive aid from the occupying authorities. As a result, the city’s population has decreased from approximately 25,000 before the invasion to only 2,000 as of 2026.[1][2] Ukrainian officials have described the situation in the city and surrounding settlements as a humanitarian blockade, with witnesses making parallels with the Holodomor.[3][4]Location map of Oleshky in Ukraine
The aerial view of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine in a photo published on Sept.16, 2026. (Dmytro Lubinets / Telegram)
An investigation by Ukrainian media outlet Slidstvo.info published on Oct. 23 has uncovered the identities of Russian officers involved in the blockade of the city of Oleshky in Kherson Oblast.
The Russian-occupied city, located just across the Dnipro River from Kherson, has been effectively blockaded by Russian forces in the area, who prevent humanitarian aid from entering. Civilians attempting to flee via the only roads in and out of the city are frequently targeted by drones.
Building on a previous investigation published in late September that identified the commanders of the Russian 126th Coast Guard Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet and the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment as operating in the area, Slidstvo.info established the presence of the 217th Guards Airborne Regiment and its commander, Georgy Yanchev.
According to the Oct. 23 investigation, the 217th Regiment previously took part in the Battle of Kyiv at the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion and later fought in Chasiv Yar, one of the main hotspots of fighting in Donetsk Oblast
First lady Melania Trump’s office on Friday said she — not President Trump or another top official — has secured a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky for humanitarian reasons.
In an unusual announcement for a first lady’s office, it said both nations agreed to temporarily halt all military action in the southern Ukrainian city “to allow for humanitarian aid to enter and to prepare a civilian evacuation through a designated safe passageway.” The localized ceasefire will begin Thursday, Oct. 29.
Russia and Ukraine have not commented on the first lady’s announcement. But Ukrainian officials indicated that there has been a tentative agreement in the Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine.
The first lady’s office says she worked “directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the localized ceasefire.”
The intervention, presented as a humanitarian request by Melania to Putin, will only place the future of these citizens into a removal by Russians in order that fighting with Ukraine can continue unabated.
Just pointing out, some nearer truth:
On Ukraine war: Pope Francis the prophetic disruptor, Pope Leo the institutional pragmatist
Pope Leo called Vladimir Putin from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Oct. 16, to ask for a humanitarian ceasefire that would allow medical and food assistance to enter the frontline Ukrainian city of Oleshky and for its citizens to safely and voluntarily evacuate. The Kremlin said Mr. Putin “supported the Vatican’s intention” for aid to be delivered and said “cooperation in this regard was agreed upon,” without committing to a ceasefire. On Monday—perhaps due to the absence of visible progress—Leo called Volodymyr Zelensky with the same proposal.
At issue is the livelihood of some 2,000 Ukrainians, including 40 children, who are facing hunger and dropping temperatures as the infrastructure around them has been destroyed. While Mr. Putin agreed on Wednesday to trilateral peace negotiations with Ukraine and the United States to be held sometime in November, the fate of Oleshky hangs in the balance, and it is too early to tell whether Leo’s appeal will have the desired result.
Still, the phone call was remarkable, both considering Leo’s hospitalization—which surely brought an added gravitas to his appeal—as well as the fact that, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis was never able to speak to Mr. Putin again. The two had enjoyed a fairly cordial relationship up until the February 2022 invasion, with Mr. Putin calling to wish Francis a happy birthday in December 2021.
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“sacriligeous” and denouncing Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s endorsement of the war, saying Kirill should not become “Putin’s altar boy.”
At the same time, Francis often faced criticism for not going as far as some would have liked in his denunciations (following Vatican protocol, he never named Russia) and for, at times, seemingly playing into Russian talking points, as when he suggested NATO may have provoked the war by “barking at the gates” of Russia or when he spoke about Ukraine needing to have the “courage of the white flag,” which the Vatican later clarified referred to negotiation rather than surrender. Francis’ intention was to keep dialogue open with Russia and Ukraine, but his personal interventions and improvised comments may have made Mr. Putin wary of a top-level bilateral conversation, even as diplomatic work continued between the Holy See and Russia.
Pope Leo XIV, on the other hand, has taken a much more calculated, institutional approach, one that reflects his status as a Vatican “insider” in contrast with Pope Francis, who never held a Vatican role before his election. Leo, from the beginning of his pontificate, has demonstrated trust in the Vatican Secretariat of State—keeping in place the same team Francis had in that department—while initially saying he faced a “huge learning curve” when it came to assuming his role as a world leader, implying he would be leaning more on his team of diplomats for advice.
That institutional approach has led to more measured, specific and scripted appeals for peace: Leo’s strongest words are often reserved for more general denunciations of war, the arms race and the resulting increases in hatred and suffering, while his personal interventions—like the ones we saw this week—have often come with calculated, almost surgical requests. In his first conversation with Mr. Putin, for example, Leo reportedly asked for a concrete gesture of peace and brought up humanitarian assistance and prisoner exchanges—key areas in which Vatican diplomats have already been able to make a difference during this war. Likewise, his request to Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky this week called for a humanitarian ceasefire, the delivery of aid and medicine and, vitally, the “safe and voluntary” evacuation of Oleshky.
Published date: 20 October 2026 09:01 BST|Last update:5 hours 51 mins ago
As Washington limits its exposure, Cairo risks committing military power without defining its objectives or exit strategy
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Cairo on 15 September 2026 (Ahmed Nureldine/Saudi Press Agency/AFP)
Ships approaching the Suez Canal, the Sumed pipeline, energy terminals and fuel storage facilities: these are among the assets Egypt must consider potentially exposed if it enters direct combat against Yemen’s Houthis.
The consequences could reach far beyond the forces Cairo deploys, threatening the infrastructure through which Egypt earns foreign currency and supplies its economy.
The Houthis would not need to strike the canal itself to undermine its revenues. Threats farther south can deter shipping, raise costs and force vessels onto longer routes. Navigation can remain technically possible while the traffic that gives the waterway its economic value moves elsewhere.
But Cairo must also consider a more serious scenario: direct attacks on vessels or infrastructure serving the canal, potentially forcing a complete suspension of navigation.
This is a risk to assess, rather than an established Houthi plan or a prediction that such an operation would succeed. This could benefit the Houthis and Iran by blocking US and Israeli naval movements from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Getty Images)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said while visiting Iran that the country’s fight against the United States was a “just cause.”
Lavrov made the remarks while flanked by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran at a joint press conference.
Lavrov called the U.S. war with Iran an “unprovoked military campaign” and said Russia was committed to supporting the Iranian government.”
He added that Russia was committed to finding an end to the war.
This was Lavrov’s first visit to Iran since the conflict began in February.
“We once again expressed our country’s readiness to assist in finding mutually acceptable solutions to overcome this man-made crisis,” Lavrov said at the press conference, according to Kremlin media.
Lavrov said he visited the country to prevent the return of a large-scale war between the U.S. and Iran and added that Russia would never stop supporting Iran.
“Despite the difficult circumstances, Russia does not intend to abandon the implementation of agreements with Iran in the economic and investment spheres,” Lavrov said.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week waiving sanctions on Russia that were set to take effect under legislation Congress approved with overwhelming bipartisan support
Trump defended the measure as a way to help end Russa’s war with Ukraine and to keep it from assisting Iran.
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