Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Spain’s PM Responds to Trump’s Threats to ‘Cut Off’ Trade | WSJ
Iran War Widens Rift between US and Germany | DW News
Why Trump's War Has Made Iran More Dangerous - Interview with Danny Citrinowicz
Mar 26, 2026 | What did Trump and Israel get wrong in their war with Iran, and can the remaining elements of the regime hold out?
We speak to Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iran branch in the Research and Analysis Division in Israel Defense Intelligence and now Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.
Citrinowicz says one of Trump's "biggest mistakes" was assuming the regime would fall as soon as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed - when in fact it has left an even more emboldened and radicalised regime in his place.
He says what's left is a series of "bad options" for the US president and Israel.
We speak to Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iran branch in the Research and Analysis Division in Israel Defense Intelligence and now Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies.
Citrinowicz says one of Trump's "biggest mistakes" was assuming the regime would fall as soon as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed - when in fact it has left an even more emboldened and radicalised regime in his place.
He says what's left is a series of "bad options" for the US president and Israel.
USA vs. Kuba: Was will Trump?
US-Iran Ceasefire: What's in Iran's Counter Proposal? | DW News
Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care.
As a nationwide blackout in Cuba stretched into a second day this past weekend, the stakes were rising for Jorge Pérez Álvarez.
The 21-year-old suffers from a genetic disease preventing his lungs from pumping air on their own. He needs a ventilator at all times to keep breathing.
His ventilator’s backup battery is supposed to last more than a day, but that has been tested repeatedly in recent weeks, including three nationwide outages that each pushed up against its limits. And with the power out for hours every day, there is hardly enough time to recharge it.
“I don’t know how long we can keep going,” said his mother, Xenia Álvarez, standing near her son’s crumpled body in his bedroom in a poor neighborhood of Havana. “His life depends on electricity.”
The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts, food shortages, canceled classes and black-market gas prices approaching $40 a gallon. It is also crippling Cuba’s universal health care system, a state institution once considered a triumph for a poor nation, but is now struggling to provide basic care.
In interviews, six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.
“I can’t tell you how many deaths, but I’m sure there are more than in the same period last year,” said Dr. Alioth Fernandez, chief anesthesiologist at Havana’s largest pediatric hospital. “I see it in shift handovers, in colleagues’ comments and in children I’ve operated on.”
The blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages. » | By Ed Augustin and Jack Nicas | Photographs by Jorge Luis Baños | Ed Augustin and Jorge Luis Baños reported from Havana. | Thursday, March 26, 2026
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As a nationwide blackout in Cuba stretched into a second day this past weekend, the stakes were rising for Jorge Pérez Álvarez.
The 21-year-old suffers from a genetic disease preventing his lungs from pumping air on their own. He needs a ventilator at all times to keep breathing.
His ventilator’s backup battery is supposed to last more than a day, but that has been tested repeatedly in recent weeks, including three nationwide outages that each pushed up against its limits. And with the power out for hours every day, there is hardly enough time to recharge it.
“I don’t know how long we can keep going,” said his mother, Xenia Álvarez, standing near her son’s crumpled body in his bedroom in a poor neighborhood of Havana. “His life depends on electricity.”
The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts, food shortages, canceled classes and black-market gas prices approaching $40 a gallon. It is also crippling Cuba’s universal health care system, a state institution once considered a triumph for a poor nation, but is now struggling to provide basic care.
In interviews, six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.
“I can’t tell you how many deaths, but I’m sure there are more than in the same period last year,” said Dr. Alioth Fernandez, chief anesthesiologist at Havana’s largest pediatric hospital. “I see it in shift handovers, in colleagues’ comments and in children I’ve operated on.”
The blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages. » | By Ed Augustin and Jack Nicas | Photographs by Jorge Luis Baños | Ed Augustin and Jorge Luis Baños reported from Havana. | Thursday, March 26, 2026
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
US Is 'Negotiating with Itself,' Iranian Military Says | BBC News
Mar 25, 2026 | The US is "negotiating with itself", a spokesman for the Iranian military said.
The comments came after President Donald Trump insisted Iran wants a deal "so badly" - saying on Tuesday that Iran gave the US a "very big present worth a tremendous amount of money".
The US has also handed over a 15-point peace plan, unconfirmed reports said. It includes Iran dismantling nuclear facilities, in exchange for lifting of sanctions.
If this isn’t proof that dementia has set in, I don’t know what would be! — © Mark Alexander
The comments came after President Donald Trump insisted Iran wants a deal "so badly" - saying on Tuesday that Iran gave the US a "very big present worth a tremendous amount of money".
The US has also handed over a 15-point peace plan, unconfirmed reports said. It includes Iran dismantling nuclear facilities, in exchange for lifting of sanctions.
If this isn’t proof that dementia has set in, I don’t know what would be! — © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Why Iran Won't Negotiate with the United States
U.S. Is Said to Have Sent Iran a Peace Plan
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The 15-point proposal, sent via Pakistan, reflects the Trump administration’s eagerness to find an offramp from the conflict as it grapples with its economic fallout, according to two officials briefed on the diplomacy.
The United States has sent Iran a plan for ending the war in the Middle East, according to two officials briefed on the diplomacy, reflecting the Trump administration’s desire to find an offramp to a conflict that has deeply rattled the global economy.
It was unclear whether Iran was likely to accept the plan, sent via Pakistan, as a basis for negotiations, or whether Israel, which has been bombing Iran together with the United States for four weeks, was on board with it.
President Trump, speaking on a day in which Iran sent waves of missiles across the Middle East, said Tuesday that negotiations to end the war were already taking place and that the Iranians would like “to make a deal.”
Iran has maintained publicly that no negotiations are happening, but speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said not only that they were occurring but also that Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were involved.
Mr. Trump cast Iran as a nation so near military defeat that it had little choice but to negotiate, but the Iranians made clear on Tuesday that they could still lash out across the region. Its missiles targeted Israel and Iraq, and Persian Gulf nations also reported new strikes — despite claims by American and Israel officials that the Iranian ballistic missile program has been severely battered.
The Israeli authorities said a direct hit in Tel Aviv caused extensive damage to at least three residential buildings. At least six people were treated for injuries in Tel Aviv, according to the national emergency service. Iran War Live Updates » | Gabby Sobelman, Yeganeh Torbati, Natan Odenheimer and Erica L. Green | Tuesday, March 24, 2026
The United States has sent Iran a plan for ending the war in the Middle East, according to two officials briefed on the diplomacy, reflecting the Trump administration’s desire to find an offramp to a conflict that has deeply rattled the global economy.
It was unclear whether Iran was likely to accept the plan, sent via Pakistan, as a basis for negotiations, or whether Israel, which has been bombing Iran together with the United States for four weeks, was on board with it.
President Trump, speaking on a day in which Iran sent waves of missiles across the Middle East, said Tuesday that negotiations to end the war were already taking place and that the Iranians would like “to make a deal.”
Iran has maintained publicly that no negotiations are happening, but speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said not only that they were occurring but also that Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were involved.
Mr. Trump cast Iran as a nation so near military defeat that it had little choice but to negotiate, but the Iranians made clear on Tuesday that they could still lash out across the region. Its missiles targeted Israel and Iraq, and Persian Gulf nations also reported new strikes — despite claims by American and Israel officials that the Iranian ballistic missile program has been severely battered.
The Israeli authorities said a direct hit in Tel Aviv caused extensive damage to at least three residential buildings. At least six people were treated for injuries in Tel Aviv, according to the national emergency service. Iran War Live Updates » | Gabby Sobelman, Yeganeh Torbati, Natan Odenheimer and Erica L. Green | Tuesday, March 24, 2026
US Plays with Total War Insanity | Patrick Henningsen
Monday, March 23, 2026
Chas Freeman: Trump Back Down - Armageddon Postponed?
The US Is Losing Until Iran's Closure of Strait of Hormuz Ends | General Sir Richard Shirreff
Mar 23, 2026 | "It can end in two ways. One is the Americans and the Israelis recognise that this is going nowhere, that they have culminated despite this ferocious bombing campaign."
In order for the US to achieve regime change, they would have to "escalate and this turns into a ground war, which would be an absolute catastrophe", says former deputy Nato supreme allied commander General Sir Richard Shirreff.
In order for the US to achieve regime change, they would have to "escalate and this turns into a ground war, which would be an absolute catastrophe", says former deputy Nato supreme allied commander General Sir Richard Shirreff.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Cuba Prepares for US Military Action
THE TELEGRAPH: Deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío says it would be ‘naive’ to ignore the possibility of conflict
Cuba is preparing for possible military aggression from the US, one of the island’s leading diplomats has said.
The two countries have been in talks for weeks as an oil blockade of Cuba has caused one of the worst energy crises on the island in decades.
But in recent days, Donald Trump and senior administration officials have ramped up their rhetoric about hopes of seeing a change of government, with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, saying on Tuesday that Cuba needed “new people in charge”.
Speaking to reporters this week, Mr Trump said he believed he would have “the honour of taking Cuba”.
Asked what he meant by “taking” the country, he said: “Whether I free it, take it - I think I can do anything I want with it.”
Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, told NBC in an interview aired on Sunday that it would be “naive” for the country’s leaders to ignore the possibility of conflict with the US.
“Our military is always prepared. And in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” he said.
“Our military is always prepared. And in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” he said. » | Ben Stockton | Sunday, March 22, 2026
Cuba is preparing for possible military aggression from the US, one of the island’s leading diplomats has said.
The two countries have been in talks for weeks as an oil blockade of Cuba has caused one of the worst energy crises on the island in decades.
But in recent days, Donald Trump and senior administration officials have ramped up their rhetoric about hopes of seeing a change of government, with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, saying on Tuesday that Cuba needed “new people in charge”.
Speaking to reporters this week, Mr Trump said he believed he would have “the honour of taking Cuba”.
Asked what he meant by “taking” the country, he said: “Whether I free it, take it - I think I can do anything I want with it.”
Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, told NBC in an interview aired on Sunday that it would be “naive” for the country’s leaders to ignore the possibility of conflict with the US.
“Our military is always prepared. And in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” he said.
“Our military is always prepared. And in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” he said. » | Ben Stockton | Sunday, March 22, 2026
China Has a Ten-year Strategy; the US Has None amid Deep Political Division
Trump Threatens Iran with Huge Attack If Hormuz Does Not Reopen within 48 Hours
THE GUARDIAN: The United States of America will hit and obliterate Iran’s various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Click here to read more | Sunday, March 22, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Iran War Will End in US Strategic Failure: Why the UK Keeps ‘Well Clear’ of Conflict | Sean Bell
Mar 21, 2026 | “America will walk away having achieved a military victory but a strategic failure.”
The British government and military are trying to “keep well clear” of the conflict in Iran as it’s an “unwinnable war”, says former RAF Air Vice Marshall Sean Bell.
The British government and military are trying to “keep well clear” of the conflict in Iran as it’s an “unwinnable war”, says former RAF Air Vice Marshall Sean Bell.
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