A brief thread on the History of Oil & the Great Game
However if you will allow me
I will not start w/ John Rockefeller&Standard Oil in 1870s or even Persia in 1900s
I will start in Middle&the collapse of USSR
Ch1: Putin never forgets
@dugalira@andymukherjee70@ananthng
FBI is saying they can’t unlock the Trump shooters phone. Just post the number online and say there’s 1000 BTC on it and you’ll have it unlocked in the next 3 minutes. 😂
OK this is very bad. 40% of Ukrainians think it will be in the EU by 2024, and 69% within 5 years. If this is correct there has been a terrible failure of communication by Ukrainian authorities. The sooner a more realistic timetable is laid out the better.
almost all americans agree abortion should be legal in some circumstances, illegal in others
large majorities of democrats and republicans
well over 90% of abortions in us are in the first trimester
glenn youngkin knows this. i suspect desantis and newsom do too
Nothing of note in the Iranian readout of Shamkhani's meeting with Borrell today. Shamkhani repeated Iran's standard lines: Tehran never left the negotiating table; it wants a lasting agreement with guarantees; and needs to reap the economic benefits of the JCPOA.
#RBI's circular on lending through wallets and prepaid cards has gotten the fintech payments and lending industry into a huddle. Over the past 2 days industry associations and bodies have held multiple meetings.
Here's what they have or plan to ask the #RBI ⬇️🧵
#UPDATE Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday signalled no progress on Sweden's bid to join NATO in a phone call with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, urging Stockholm to take "concrete actions" to meet Ankara's concerns
Indeed, something I didn't include in the piece is that I see the most useful potential model for this war as NOT a European war: instead, it's the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.
"A warning for everyone watching the [🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war] to brace for a protracted, sanguinary conflict.”
My piece in the @washingtonpost offers the data underpinning that claim. Let's elaborate on and give broader context to that claim.
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https://t.co/9VqB5jX0Aa
The very strong statements from several NATO governments on yesterday’s Court decision on abortion are truly striking. I’m not sure they fully appreciate the implication, as they implicitly but profoundly cut against the trope that these alliances are based on shared values. 1/
Govs. DeSantis and Youngkin are both enacting abortion bans that start at 15 weeks, which means that Florida and Virginia will still have more liberal abortion laws than virtually all of Western Europe