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Fox News’ Trey Yingst relays that Trump, after an overnight Iranian strike on US forces in Jordan, says Washington will respond hard: "We’re going to hit them hard." US air defenses intercepted all but one missile, let through as harmless. Washington’s read on the same exchange the analysts we track are assessing.
Asked about using a nuclear weapon on Iran, Trump calls it "a stupid question" and claims Iran is "totally defeated militarily," the military-defeat claim the analysts we track dispute.
Draft officers force a man out of his home and into a van in Kharkov as a woman screams after them, "Bastards! Animals! I hope you die!" Another look at the forced-mobilization drive Ukrainians call "busification".
Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg tells Fox that Ukraine now has the best and best-trained army in Europe and will become the strongest. The optimistic Washington read against which the analysts we track measure the collapsing front.
At the SCO summit, Putin proposes a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation development bank that can lend and settle without the dollar, SWIFT, Western banks or the IMF. The de-dollarization move the analysts we track keep pointing to, in his own words.
A chart of the US dollar's purchasing power indexed to 100 in January 2020, declining to 77.06 by August 2026, a 22.9% loss
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