by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 26, 2026 | Armed Forces, Banks, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Monetary System, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, USA, War
The United States has levied various forms of economic sanctions on Iran for the better part of fifty years. They have never achieved their full objectives. With the US entering its seventh month of war with Iran, the Trump administration has declared an Economic...
by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 9, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Iran, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
The fact that China is America’s greatest geostrategic challenge is now so obvious as to have become cliché. Yet over the past five years, the United States has expended great effort and astronomical sums of resources—not to mention deficit spending—on two potentially...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 11, 2026 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, NATO, Politics, Trump Administration, USA
During the past decade, a period in which Germany (Europe’s largest economy) was busy committing national energy suicide and France was trying to decide whether it wanted to remain French, Poland was steadily rebuilding what is now one of the strongest and most...