#economic-warfare

#economic-warfare

Hawkish US rhetoric and economic warfare with China risk escalating tensions toward out-of-control crisis despite summit promises of stability.

Mixed messaging on Iran combines hopes for ceasefire with threats of escalation, alongside renewed diplomacy and signals of preference for prolonged conflict.

Ukrainian long-range drone strikes are reducing Russian oil refining capacity, disrupting energy production, and worsening Russia’s budget deficit and financial stability.

Relief from sanctions is crucial for Iran in ceasefire negotiations.

The U.S. has intensified economic sanctions on Cuba to unprecedented levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, creating severe shortages of food, medicine, and fuel that have triggered island-wide blackouts and a humanitarian crisis.