The 500th Edition

Almost a decade of weekly watches reviewing the news of the week, and this week is jam full of news. We had the world's largest funeral on record in Iran, and next door in Turkey there was the NATO clown show. The MoU is officially over and the hot war with Iran resumes. The Strait is closed and economic consequences will ensue. Oil, it seems, is the lubricant driving war. Having none pass through Hormuz (along with the other Gulf products- Helium, Natural Gas, fertilizers, and so on) will have global effects. Trump signed an agreement he never intended to honor. It was a stalling tactic to see if he could open the strait...another Minsk style agreement. As Lavrov stated, "The US is agreement incapable". Ukraine and Russia continue the drone wars, and with NATO openly stating they intend to go to war with Russia, giving Russia no choice but to prepare for a war with NATO. These stories and more below the fold.