TGP—Eman Abu Jame had counted her family among the lucky ones. Israel bombed their home in the southern Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war, forcing them to move from one shelter to another. But throughout the first two years of the genocide, neither she, her husband, nor her children suffered any serious health problems.
That all changed in October 2025, when they took refuge in a crowded tent camp in Khan Younis.
TGP—As the Pentagon secretly burns through its finite stock of missile interceptors, top foreign policy insiders and U.S. troops on the ground are sounding an unprecedented alarm: Washington is running out of time, leverage and ammunition. In this explosive interview, top foreign policy analyst Dr. Trita Parsi (Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute) breaks down the hidden reality behind the Middle East conflict and warn that America has walked into an unmitigated geopolitical trap.
LJ—I came away with two clear impressions.
The first is that Russia’s negotiating position toward the West has not moved an inch since Putin addressed his foreign ministry on June 14, 2024. In that speech he made the terms explicit, and they are the terms still on the table: the West must recognize Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, along with Crimea, as permanent Russian territory. These former Ukrainian oblasts are not going back. In Moscow that is treated not as an opening bid but as a settled fact. Beyond it, Russia is building buffer zones through its advances in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk. Those territories could, in time, be incorporated as well — though officials frame that as something that would follow a vote or plebiscite rather than a foregone conclusion. It is not formally on the menu. But it is, in my read, very much in the cards.
GG—”Because of Ansarallah’s offensive on Saudi Arabia’s lifegiving infrastructure…We’re looking at Saudi Arabia..disappearing before our very eyes, ” says Scott Ritter. “This could be an extinction event.”
TGP±Yemen’s Houthis have shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15SA over Marib with a surface-to-air missile, with Houthi fighters pictured standing on the wreckage, and tail number 5529 visible. This is the first Saudi F-15 ever brought fully down by Houthi fire. The jet costs roughly $110 million.
Saudi Arabia lost its most advanced fighter jet to the Houthis. The F-15SA is a two-seater, meaning two crew are either dead or captured.
IS—This is the Straits Taylor Rule and Ghalibaf adds two more variables. The Strait of Hormuz (SOH) and Bab el Mandeb (BEM). α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*). He doesn’t specify their coefficients, but says they’re more than zero (α,β > 0), ie, they count. This is a straightforward addition, so whatever the Fed was thinking, add a two ton gorilla on top. That would mean the current rate of 3.75-4% needs to be plus-plus. More realistically 4-4.5%, which still isn’t enough to account for 20% of global supply blowing up. Military problems cannot be solved with monetary plumbing, but that doesn’t stop them from trying.
