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https://hartmannreport.com/p/italy-called-trump-an-asshole-why


Italy Called Trump an "Asshole" - Why Won=E2=80=99t America=E2=80=99s Media=
 be Similarly
Candid?A conservative Italian newspaper used the blunt type of word
American journalists keep avoiding, and exposed how far our press will go
to normalize the abnormal...

THOM HARTMANN <https://substack.com/@thomhartmann>

JUN 22, 2026

This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily *Libero*, a major conservative
newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump=E2=80=99s politics, ran=
 a
one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front
page. The Italian word is *coglione*. The polite translation is =E2=80=9Cid=
iot.=E2=80=9D
The translation that George Conway and half of social media reached for,
and the one the paper plainly intended, is a good deal blunter than that
<https://www.rawstory.com/trump-italian/> and more dictionary accurate
<https://translate.google.com/?hl=3Den&sl=3Dit&tl=3Den&text=3Dcoglione&op=
=3Dtranslate>:
=E2=80=9Casshole.=E2=80=9D

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*What set the newspaper off wasn=E2=80=99t the war, or the self-dealing, or=
 the
cruelty toward immigrants: it was Trump=E2=80=99s lie about a photograph. H=
e
pathetically told an Italian network that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had
=E2=80=9Cbegged=E2=80=9D him repeatedly for a picture
<https://www.nbcnews.com/world/italy/trump-italy-meloni-begged-photo-fabric=
ated-g7-summit-france-rcna350836>*
 *at the G7 in =C3=89vian, that she=E2=80=99d wanted it so badly he =E2=80=
=9Cfelt sorry for her=E2=80=9D
and went along.*

Meloni, who until a week ago was Trump=E2=80=99s closest ally in Europe (an=
d the
only one who came to his inauguration), called the story =E2=80=9Ccompletel=
y
fabricated=E2=80=9D and said neither she nor Italy ever begs. Her foreign m=
inister
cancelled his trip to Washington in protest.

And a conservative Italian newspaper looked at the most powerful man on
Earth inventing a petty, humiliating story about a friendly head of state
for no reason anyone could name but his own wretched, needy,
emotionally-stunted ego and decided that therefore there was exactly one
accurate word for him.

*A newspaper in Milan, run by people who=E2=80=99d probably vote for him if=
 they
had the chance, will say in a banner headline what our own press, knowing
far more about this man than they do, still treats as unspeakable.*

So let=E2=80=99s do what our major papers won=E2=80=99t, and lay the record=
 out in plain
English:

=E2=80=94 A jury in Manhattan found Trump liable for sexually abusing the w=
riter E.
Jean Carroll, and the federal judge who presided, Lewis Kaplan, wrote in
his own ruling
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rap=
e/>
 that what the jury concluded Trump did amounts to =E2=80=9Crape as ordinar=
y people
understand the word,=E2=80=9D even if it didn=E2=80=99t fit New York=E2=80=
=99s narrow penal statute.


=E2=80=94 We have him on tape, in his own voice, bragging that his fame let=
s him
grab women by the genitals. And continuously trash-talking female reporters=
.

=E2=80=94 We have the Eric Trump Foundation, set up to raise money for chil=
dren
dying of cancer at St. Jude, quietly paying hundreds of thousands of those
donated dollars to his father=E2=80=99s golf courses and steering more than=
 half a
million
<https://abcnews.com/Politics/eric-trump-funneled-cancer-charity-money-busi=
nesses-associates/story?id=3D47878610>
 to other groups tied to Trump interests, while donors believed every
dollar was going to sick kids.

=E2=80=94 We have a =E2=80=9Cuniversity=E2=80=9D that wasn=E2=80=99t a univ=
ersity, shut down after he paid
twenty-five million dollars to settle fraud claims from the students it
fleeced.

=E2=80=94 We have a memecoin he launched days before his inauguration that =
enriched
his family and a handful of insiders by hundreds of millions of dollars in
fees
<https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-repo=
rt-exposes-the-trump-family-s-multi-billion-dollar-crypto-empire-fueled-by-=
self-dealing-and-corrupt-foreign-interests>,
even as the small-dollar believers who bought in on the strength of his
name watched the thing collapse by more than ninety percent.

=E2=80=94 And we have a shooting war against Iran that began in February, w=
ith
American bombs and a dead Iranian Supreme Leader, that Congress never voted
on and that the Brennan Center for Justice called flatly unconstitutional
<https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-iran-strike=
s-are-unconstitutional>
.

*Every one of those facts has been reported, sourced, litigated, and
confirmed, and they=E2=80=99re really just the tip of the corruption and
criminality iceberg which also includes 34 felony convictions and the
apparent sale of pardons. And yet pick up the average front page on any
given morning and you=E2=80=99ll find the man at the center of all of it de=
scribed
as =E2=80=9Ccontroversial,=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cpolarizing,=E2=80=9D or =E2=
=80=9Cunconventional.=E2=80=9D*

You=E2=80=99ll read that he =E2=80=9Cmade claims=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cstoke=
d tensions=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cbroke with
norms.=E2=80=9D

*Press critic Margaret Sullivan and journalist Aaron Rupar gave this habit
a name a couple of years back: they call it =E2=80=9Csanewashing,=E2=80=9D =
the steady
translation of genuinely deranged, asinine conduct into the calm, gray
vocabulary of normal politics, and the* *Columbia Journalism Review
<https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_incoherent_media_sanewashing.php=
>*
 *has documented how reporters keep reaching for euphemism precisely when
the moment calls for the plain word.*

*Why do they do it?*

=E2=80=94 *Part of it is the old religion of objectivity*, the conviction t=
hat a
serious reporter never uses a sharp word about a politician no matter what
that politician does, as though neutrality between an arsonist and a fire
department were the height of professionalism.

=E2=80=94 *Part of it is fear.* Like Putin in his early days, Trump sues, a=
nd the
corporations that own our biggest networks and newspapers would rather
write him a check than fight him in court even when they=E2=80=99d likely w=
in, and
every settlement teaches the next editor to soften the next headline.
Scholars who study democratic collapse have watched this dynamic up close,
and they=E2=80=99ll tell you that newsrooms grow reluctant to use the accur=
ate word
<https://theconversation.com/why-journalists-are-reluctant-to-call-trump-an=
-authoritarian-and-why-that-matters-for-democracy-263778>
 for a man precisely as the accurate word becomes most necessary.

=E2=80=94 A*nd part of it tracks back a half-century to RNC Chairman Rich B=
ond
telling Republicans to scream =E2=80=9Cliberal bias=E2=80=9D* every time a =
newspaper or
reporter told a true story that reflected poorly on Republicans. =E2=80=9CW=
ork the
refs=E2=80=9D was his instruction.

*I lived in Germany for a stretch in the 1980s, and one of the things I
noticed reading the papers there was how brutally unafraid European
journalists were to call a powerful person a fool or a liar to his face, in
print, right there in the headline. It wasn=E2=80=99t recklessness. It was =
memory.*

Germans of that generation knew exactly what happens when a press decides
that the polite thing, the cautious thing, the access-preserving thing =E2=
=80=94 as
had happened there in the 1930s =E2=80=94 is to keep describing a dangerous=
 man in
reasonable language, until the day comes when it=E2=80=99s too late to desc=
ribe him
any other way.

*But today in America, a handful of giant corporations and rightwing
billionaires have came to own most of what Americans read and watch, and
that concentration now quietly shapes the boundaries of what those outlets
will say about the powerful people they both report on and often fear.*

The Italians still have a mainstream press scrappy enough, and independent
enough, to call a spade a spade. We used to.

*The Founders didn=E2=80=99t protect the press in the First Amendment so it=
 could
practice stenography. They gave it that protection so it would tell the
country the truth, bluntly, when the powerful would rather it didn=E2=80=99=
t, and
so it would be the thing that warned us* *before* *the danger arrived
rather than after.*

*A free press that won=E2=80=99t name what=E2=80=99s in front of its own ey=
es isn=E2=80=99t being
fair. It=E2=80=99s failing at the one job the Constitution set aside for it=
.*

So here=E2=80=99s where you come in, because the press won=E2=80=99t fix it=
self and the
politicians won=E2=80=99t fix it for us. Cancel the subscription to any out=
let that
keeps calling a documented fraud =E2=80=9Cunconventional,=E2=80=9D and put =
that money
toward independent journalism that uses real words.

Make sure you=E2=80=99re registered and ready at vote.org <https://www.vote=
.org/>,
and look up exactly who represents you at the state level at openstates.org=
,
because the people who=E2=80=99ll decide whether your vote even counts in 2=
026 are
sitting in your statehouse right now.

And if this piece said something you think more people need to hear in
plain language, then do the thing the Italian editors did. Don=E2=80=99t so=
ften it.
Share it, forward it, post it, and send folks to *hartmannreport.com
<https://hartmannreport.com/>* so we can keep telling the truth here
without a billionaire owner deciding which words I=E2=80=99m allowed to use=
.

The morbidly rich and GOP are counting on our politeness. Let=E2=80=99s dis=
appoint
these, as the Italians would say, =E2=80=9Cassholes.=E2=80=9D

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tter-spacing:.15pt">JUN 22, 2026<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style=3D"line-h=
eight:19.2pt"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New R=
oman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily<=
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Libero</em>, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Do=
nald Trump=E2=80=99s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of t=
he United States across its front page. The Italian word is<span class=3D"m=
_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><em>coglione</em>. =
The polite translation is =E2=80=9Cidiot.=E2=80=9D The translation that Geo=
rge Conway and half of social media reached for, and the one the paper plai=
nly intended, is<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.rawstory.com/trump-italian/" target=3D"=
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48apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span>and more<span class=3D"m_769903437581=
1181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://translate.goo=
gle.com/?hl=3Den&amp;sl=3Dit&amp;tl=3Den&amp;text=3Dcoglione&amp;op=3Dtrans=
late" target=3D"_blank">dictionary accurate</a>: =E2=80=9Casshole.=E2=80=9D=
<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u>=
</u><u></u></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TsaU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progress=
ive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fima=
ges%2Fc8fb4803-e05e-4cec-9aab-c8a9440960ae_923x1199.jpeg" target=3D"_blank"=
><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif=
;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none"><u></u><u><=
/u></span></a></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:14=
.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:blue;border:none w=
indowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch=
/$s_!TsaU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p=
ost-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8fb4803-e05e-4cec-9aab-c8a9=
440960ae_923x1199.jpeg" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;f=
ont-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:windowtext;border:none;text=
-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times N=
ew Roman&quot;,serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><=
img border=3D"0" width=3D"328" height=3D"426" style=3D"width:3.4166in;heigh=
t:4.4375in" id=3D"m_7699034375811181448Picture_x0020_1" src=3D"cid:ii_19ef9=
6c018a4ce8e91" alt=3D"Image"></span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;=
font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:windowtext;border:none;tex=
t-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNorma=
l"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,=
serif;color:#363737"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></span></p><p><strong><span style=
=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">What set the newspaper off wasn=E2=80=
=99t the war, or the self-dealing, or the cruelty toward immigrants: it was=
 Trump=E2=80=99s lie about a photograph. He pathetically told an Italian ne=
twork that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://ww=
w.nbcnews.com/world/italy/trump-italy-meloni-begged-photo-fabricated-g7-sum=
mit-france-rcna350836" target=3D"_blank">begged=E2=80=9D him repeatedly for=
 a picture</a></span></strong><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-con=
verted-space"><b><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times Ne=
w Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=C2=A0</span></b></span><strong><span st=
yle=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">at the G7 in =C3=89vian, that she=E2=
=80=99d wanted it so badly he =E2=80=9Cfelt sorry for her=E2=80=9D and went=
 along.</span></strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Ti=
mes New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span =
style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;col=
or:#363737">Meloni, who until a week ago was Trump=E2=80=99s closest ally i=
n Europe (and the only one who came to his inauguration), called the story =
=E2=80=9Ccompletely fabricated=E2=80=9D and said neither she nor Italy ever=
 begs. Her foreign minister cancelled his trip to Washington in protest.<sp=
an class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u=
><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Tim=
es New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">And a conservative Italian newspape=
r looked at the most powerful man on Earth inventing a petty, humiliating s=
tory about a friendly head of state for no reason anyone could name but his=
 own wretched, needy, emotionally-stunted ego and decided that therefore th=
ere was exactly one accurate word for him.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><stro=
ng><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">A newspaper in Milan, run=
 by people who=E2=80=99d probably vote for him if they had the chance, will=
 say in a banner headline what our own press, knowing far more about this m=
an than they do, still treats as unspeakable.</span></strong><span style=3D=
"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#3637=
37"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family=
:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">So let=E2=80=99s do what =
our major papers won=E2=80=99t, and lay the record out in plain English:<sp=
an class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u=
><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Tim=
es New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=E2=80=94 A jury in Manhattan found=
 Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll, and the fede=
ral judge who presided, Lewis Kaplan,<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448ap=
ple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com=
/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/" target=3D"_blank">wrote in =
his own ruling</a><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space=
">=C2=A0</span>that what the jury concluded Trump did amounts to =E2=80=9Cr=
ape as ordinary people understand the word,=E2=80=9D even if it didn=E2=80=
=99t fit New York=E2=80=99s narrow penal statute.<span class=3D"m_769903437=
5811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><=
span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f;color:#363737">=E2=80=94 We have him on tape, in his own voice, bragging =
that his fame lets him grab women by the genitals. And continuously trash-t=
alking female reporters.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-siz=
e:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=E2=
=80=94 We have the Eric Trump Foundation, set up to raise money for childre=
n dying of cancer at St. Jude, quietly paying hundreds of thousands of thos=
e donated dollars to his father=E2=80=99s golf courses and<span class=3D"m_=
7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://a=
bcnews.com/Politics/eric-trump-funneled-cancer-charity-money-businesses-ass=
ociates/story?id=3D47878610" target=3D"_blank">steering more than half a mi=
llion</a><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0<=
/span>to other groups tied to Trump interests, while donors believed every =
dollar was going to sick kids.<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-con=
verted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-=
size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=
=E2=80=94 We have a =E2=80=9Cuniversity=E2=80=9D that wasn=E2=80=99t a univ=
ersity, shut down after he paid twenty-five million dollars to settle fraud=
 claims from the students it fleeced.<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448ap=
ple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=
=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#3=
63737">=E2=80=94 We have a memecoin he launched days before his inauguratio=
n that enriched his family and a handful of insiders by<span class=3D"m_769=
9034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://demo=
crats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-report-exposes-th=
e-trump-family-s-multi-billion-dollar-crypto-empire-fueled-by-self-dealing-=
and-corrupt-foreign-interests" target=3D"_blank">hundreds of millions of do=
llars in fees</a>, even as the small-dollar believers who bought in on the =
strength of his name watched the thing collapse by more than ninety percent=
.<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u=
></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot=
;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=E2=80=94 And we have a shootin=
g war against Iran that began in February, with American bombs and a dead I=
ranian Supreme Leader, that Congress never voted on and that the Brennan Ce=
nter for Justice<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opi=
nion/trumps-iran-strikes-are-unconstitutional" target=3D"_blank">called fla=
tly unconstitutional</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><strong><span style=3D=
"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">Every one of those facts has been reported=
, sourced, litigated, and confirmed, and they=E2=80=99re really just the ti=
p of the corruption and criminality iceberg which also includes 34 felony c=
onvictions and the apparent sale of pardons. And yet pick up the average fr=
ont page on any given morning and you=E2=80=99ll find the man at the center=
 of all of it described as =E2=80=9Ccontroversial,=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cpol=
arizing,=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cunconventional.=E2=80=9D</span></strong><span=
 style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;co=
lor:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;fo=
nt-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">You=E2=80=99ll r=
ead that he =E2=80=9Cmade claims=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cstoked tensions=E2=80=
=9D or =E2=80=9Cbroke with norms.=E2=80=9D<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181=
448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><strong>=
<span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">Press critic Margaret Sulliv=
an and journalist Aaron Rupar gave this habit a name a couple of years back=
: they call it =E2=80=9Csanewashing,=E2=80=9D the steady translation of gen=
uinely deranged, asinine conduct into the calm, gray vocabulary of normal p=
olitics, and the</span></strong><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-c=
onverted-space"><b><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=C2=A0</span></b></span><strong><span =
style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737"><a href=3D"https://www.cjr.org/the=
_media_today/trump_incoherent_media_sanewashing.php" target=3D"_blank">Colu=
mbia Journalism Review</a></span></strong><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181=
448apple-converted-space"><b><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&q=
uot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=C2=A0</span></b></span><str=
ong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">has documented how repor=
ters keep reaching for euphemism precisely when the moment calls for the pl=
ain word.</span></strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><str=
ong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">Why do they do it?</span=
></strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman=
&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font=
-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=
=E2=80=94<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0<=
/span><strong>Part of it is the old religion of objectivity</strong>, the c=
onviction that a serious reporter never uses a sharp word about a politicia=
n no matter what that politician does, as though neutrality between an arso=
nist and a fire department were the height of professionalism.<span class=
=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u>=
</span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New R=
oman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=E2=80=94<span class=3D"m_76990343758111814=
48apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><strong>Part of it is fear.</strong><=
span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span>Like=
 Putin in his early days, Trump sues, and the corporations that own our big=
gest networks and newspapers would rather write him a check than fight him =
in court even when they=E2=80=99d likely win, and every settlement teaches =
the next editor to soften the next headline. Scholars who study democratic =
collapse have watched this dynamic up close, and they=E2=80=99ll tell you t=
hat newsrooms grow<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space=
">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://theconversation.com/why-journalists-are-r=
eluctant-to-call-trump-an-authoritarian-and-why-that-matters-for-democracy-=
263778" target=3D"_blank">reluctant to use the accurate word</a><span class=
=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span>for a man prec=
isely as the accurate word becomes most necessary.<u></u><u></u></span></p>=
<p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,=
serif;color:#363737">=E2=80=94 A<strong>nd part of it tracks back a half-ce=
ntury to RNC Chairman Rich Bond telling Republicans to scream =E2=80=9Clibe=
ral bias=E2=80=9D</strong><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-convert=
ed-space">=C2=A0</span>every time a newspaper or reporter told a true story=
 that reflected poorly on Republicans. =E2=80=9CWork the refs=E2=80=9D was =
his instruction.<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=
=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><strong><span style=3D"font-size:1=
4.5pt;color:#363737">I lived in Germany for a stretch in the 1980s, and one=
 of the things I noticed reading the papers there was how brutally unafraid=
 European journalists were to call a powerful person a fool or a liar to hi=
s face, in print, right there in the headline. It wasn=E2=80=99t recklessne=
ss. It was memory.</span></strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-fami=
ly:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></=
p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot=
;,serif;color:#363737">Germans of that generation knew exactly what happens=
 when a press decides that the polite thing, the cautious thing, the access=
-preserving thing =E2=80=94 as had happened there in the 1930s =E2=80=94 is=
 to keep describing a dangerous man in reasonable language, until the day c=
omes when it=E2=80=99s too late to describe him any other way.<span class=
=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u>=
</span></p><p><strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">But to=
day in America, a handful of giant corporations and rightwing billionaires =
have came to own most of what Americans read and watch, and that concentrat=
ion now quietly shapes the boundaries of what those outlets will say about =
the powerful people they both report on and often fear.</span></strong><spa=
n style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;c=
olor:#363737"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;f=
ont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">The Italians st=
ill have a mainstream press scrappy enough, and independent enough, to call=
 a spade a spade. We used to.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><strong><span styl=
e=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">The Founders didn=E2=80=99t protect th=
e press in the First Amendment so it could practice stenography. They gave =
it that protection so it would tell the country the truth, bluntly, when th=
e powerful would rather it didn=E2=80=99t, and so it would be the thing tha=
t warned us</span></strong><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-conver=
ted-space"><b><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New R=
oman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=C2=A0</span></b></span><strong><i><span st=
yle=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737">before</span></i></strong><span clas=
s=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space"><b><span style=3D"font-siz=
e:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">=C2=
=A0</span></b></span><strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363737"=
>the danger arrived rather than after.</span></strong><span style=3D"font-s=
ize:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u>=
</u><u></u></span></p><p><strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;color:#363=
737">A free press that won=E2=80=99t name what=E2=80=99s in front of its ow=
n eyes isn=E2=80=99t being fair. It=E2=80=99s failing at the one job the Co=
nstitution set aside for it.</span></strong><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt=
;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737"><u></u><u></u=
></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">So here=E2=80=99s where you come in, becau=
se the press won=E2=80=99t fix itself and the politicians won=E2=80=99t fix=
 it for us. Cancel the subscription to any outlet that keeps calling a docu=
mented fraud =E2=80=9Cunconventional,=E2=80=9D and put that money toward in=
dependent journalism that uses real words.<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181=
448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span st=
yle=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:#363737">Make sure you=E2=80=99re registered and ready at<span class=3D"m_=
7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.vote.org/" target=3D"_blank">vote.org</a>, and look up exactly who repre=
sents you at the state level at<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-co=
nverted-space">=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://openstates.org/" target=3D"_=
blank">openstates.org</a>, because the people who=E2=80=99ll decide whether=
 your vote even counts in 2026 are sitting in your statehouse right now.<u>=
</u><u></u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">And if this piece said something=
 you think more people need to hear in plain language, then do the thing th=
e Italian editors did. Don=E2=80=99t soften it. Share it, forward it, post =
it, and send folks to<span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-sp=
ace">=C2=A0</span><em><a href=3D"https://hartmannreport.com/" target=3D"_bl=
ank">hartmannreport.com</a></em><span class=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-c=
onverted-space">=C2=A0</span>so we can keep telling the truth here without =
a billionaire owner deciding which words I=E2=80=99m allowed to use.<span c=
lass=3D"m_7699034375811181448apple-converted-space">=C2=A0</span><u></u><u>=
</u></span></p><p><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Times N=
ew Roman&quot;,serif;color:#363737">The morbidly rich and GOP are counting =
on our politeness. Let=E2=80=99s disappoint these, as the Italians would sa=
y, =E2=80=9Cassholes.=E2=80=9D<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNorma=
l"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Optima"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u>=
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The US and Iran are declaring major progress since reaching an interim
peace deal last week. Their optimism may prove short-lived.

On the face of it, the days since President Donald Trump signed the
agreement have gone better
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than almost anyone expected.

Ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz. More tankers are crossing
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with their satellite signals switched on =E2=80=94 a sign of growing confid=
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Brent crude has fallen from a late-April high of around $125 a barrel to
about $76 as traders anticipate more Iranian supply
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and a recovery in Gulf shipping.

The US has lifted its naval blockade and issued a 60-day license allowing
Iran to sell oil internationally
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Iranian sellers are already approaching refiners
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in India, Japan and South Korea.

Tehran says $12 billion in frozen assets
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is being released in two installments.

Still, the thorniest issues are nowhere near to being resolved.
[image: Bloomberg=E2=80=99s Abeer Abu Omar has the latest on the talks and
conflicting claims from the negotiations.] [image: Watch now]
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Bloomberg=E2=80=99s Abeer Abu Omar has the latest on the talks and conflict=
ing
claims from the negotiations.

Washington says Iran agreed to sweeping nuclear inspections. Tehran says
that=E2=80=99s false. No limits on uranium enrichment have been agreed, and=
 Iran
insists its ballistic-missile program is outside the deal.

The two sides also contradict each other over money. Trump says unfrozen
funds will remain in a US-controlled escrow account and pay for imports of
American food and medicine. Iran says it alone will decide how the money is
spent.

While ships are moving
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through Hormuz again, there=E2=80=99s no agreement over how the crucial wat=
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and has proposed insurance requirements that could lead to fees.

Lebanon is the most likely trigger for a quick return to fighting.

Iran says ongoing Israeli operations breach the agreement. Israel says it
won=E2=80=99t withdraw until the Lebanese army can prevent the Iran-backed
Hezbollah militia from returning. Today, Tehran added it would raise
Israel=E2=80=99s attacks on Hamas in Gaza with the US.

Any of these disputes has the potential to unravel the deal and wipe out
the good vibes Trump and Iran are working so hard to project. *=E2=80=94 **=
Peter
Martin*
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Women walk through Enghelab Square in Tehran on June 3.
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Global Must Reads

*Premier Li Qiang* *played down worries* about the disruption wrought by
surging Chinese exports on the global economy, saying his nation =E2=80=9Cp=
rovides
the world with increasing dividends
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of innovation through technological progress and industrial upgrading.=E2=
=80=9D
China=E2=80=99s widening trade surplus with major partners has come under i=
ncreased
scrutiny as policymakers around the world weigh measures to counter a flood
of exports.

*China is choking off shipments* of critical minerals to Japan, a slowdown
that=E2=80=99s hurting companies
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and prompting calls for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to find a
solution to a spat with Beijing over the Taiwan issue. Also, Japanese Chief
Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said China detained two people from his
country in May on suspicion of smuggling prohibited goods =E2=80=94 as Beij=
ing wages
a campaign
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against illicit activity linked to the rare earths industry.

*Italy=E2=80=99s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani* sought to mend fences wit=
h the
US, saying the countries should work to de-escalate tensions
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after a spat between Trump and premier Giorgia Meloni. What had begun as an
effusive relationship began to descend into acrimony in April, when Meloni
publicly condemned the war in Iran and the US leader=E2=80=99s attacks on P=
ope Leo
XIV, leading to Tajani canceling a trip to Miami last week for a planned
business summit.
[image: Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US President Donald
Trump in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla&#x2F;Getty
Images]
Meloni and Trump in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

*The victory of Abelardo de la Espriella*, a conservative backed by Trump,
in Colombia=E2=80=99s presidential election marks a sharp turn for a countr=
y that
had sought to be a leader of a global transition away from oil, coal and
gas. The latest representative of a populist right wave in Latin America,
de la Espriella has urged increased production of oil and gas, with his
call for =E2=80=9Cfracking to the max
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echoing Trump=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cdrill, baby, drill=E2=80=9D embrace of fos=
sil-fuel expansion.

*Conservative Keiko Fujimori is poised* to become Peru=E2=80=99s next presi=
dent
after running her fourth consecutive campaign, despite rival Roberto
S=C3=A1nchez claiming irregularities
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The outcome would finally deliver Fujimori the job she has sought since
2011 and make her the first woman elected president of the politically
turbulent nation, while also reassuring investors who favor her
pro-business policies.

*Germany signaled it will move ahead* with plans to impose lower drug
prices on pharmaceutical companies, calling a US accusation of unfair trade
practices =E2=80=9Cunfounded
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.=E2=80=9D

*Trump said that six people* have been arrested for allegedly damaging
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the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued by algae and
peeling paint after a renovation that he directed.
[image: Workers clean algae from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after
it was painted blue in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. A
Washington federal judge wrestled with how reversible President Donald
Trump&#39;s efforts to change the color of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting
Pool would be, in the latest lawsuit targeting Trump&#39;s moves to
renovate some of Washington&#39;s historic landmarks. Photographer: Aaron
Schwartz&#x2F;Bloomberg]
Workers clean algae from the pool in Washington on June 17.
Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg

*Johannesburg has halted *some essential services because it can=E2=80=99t =
pay for
fuel, another sign of a deepening financial crisis
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in South Africa=E2=80=99s biggest city.

*Andy Burnham is all but certain* to become the UK=E2=80=99s next prime min=
ister
after Darren Jones, who had been talked up as a potential rival, said he wo=
uld
not launch
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his own leadership bid.

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Chart of the Day

The European Union=E2=80=99s regime for monitoring public finances has argu=
ably
just passed its toughest health test
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since a revamp after the pandemic. In a year when market jitters roiled
economies from the UK to Japan, a move by the European Commission to grant
a bit more budget room to indebted governments such as Italy hasn=E2=80=99t=
 upset
investors, and isn=E2=80=99t causing sovereign analysts to flinch either.
And Finally

Finland=E2=80=99s National Defense Course is designed to get leaders, and f=
uture
leaders, thinking about how to plan for and respond to worst-case scenarios
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so that they can keep the country functioning during a national emergency.
Politicians, academics, museum directors and military commanders are among
those who take part in briefings and visits to strategic facilities over a
period of three to four weeks, sleeping in barracks and wearing fatigues.
=E2=80=9CThe war in Ukraine has shown exactly why a course like this is nee=
ded,=E2=80=9D
said Arto R=C3=A4ty, a retired general who once led it.
[image: An urban combat demonstration for Finland&#39;s National Defence
Course participants in Santahamina in April 2026. Photographer: Carl
Bergman&#x2F;Bloomberg]
A Finnish defense training course in Santahamina.
Photographer: Carl Bergman/Bloomberg
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s=3D"msg4275485690408444858"><div><table width=3D"100%" align=3D"center" bo=
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th:100%"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4;font-family=
:&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;padding:8px"><p style=
=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">The US and Iran are declaring major pro=
gress since reaching an interim peace deal last week. Their optimism may pr=
ove short-lived.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">On the face=
 of it, the days since President Donald Trump signed the agreement <a href=
=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/8qCCWjswcO69E-WO-9QUALdhY4kqD6=
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8tqk-fOWbXeAtb_ssikJVHczW16DdQ/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"US =
and Iran Make =E2=80=98Progress=E2=80=99 in Talks, Aim to Keep Hormuz Open"=
 style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-=
decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">have gone better</a> than almost =
anyone expected.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">Ships are p=
assing through the Strait of Hormuz. More tankers <a href=3D"https://links.=
message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/AvzSP_nFcnvrb5wax27t4YMHv7waLWBg85_CQUtDwuoAtdKV=
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MzyYCSD7WLXBMTLl/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Hormuz Traffic Pi=
cks Up as More Tankers Broadcast Crossings" style=3D"font-size:inherit;colo=
r:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=
=3D"_blank">are crossing</a> with their satellite signals switched on =E2=
=80=94 a sign of growing confidence. Brent crude has fallen from a late-Apr=
il high of around $125 a barrel to about $76 as traders anticipate more <a =
href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/yOJbae_S0_ZkBz1E67P_1km_aj=
IIjq2p0ViuC1yNTgy4Uw6DXEKX_eQOUDkUtCt8tzxnfVCT2aqj9zcc_9j7HFRPPVXa9XwJ21GW2=
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mQA/YUvfqfC8LAwN1dvxdgBtJnTaj7sIC6I6/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=
=3D"US Waives Iran Oil Sanctions as Peace Deal Brings Huge Shift" style=3D"=
font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration=
-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">Iranian supply</a> and a recovery in Gulf s=
hipping.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">The US has lifted i=
ts naval blockade and issued a 60-day license allowing Iran to <a href=3D"h=
ttps://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/d-mHS66Z-KgoRduOnTr5D5tWjAC9wA8fp6Y=
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Ah0a5ssjaCEo-5tEJkDyMR84oM4gWejq/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"I=
ran Oil Waiver Offers Lifeline to Tehran as Talks Proceed" style=3D"font-si=
ze:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:=
solid" target=3D"_blank">sell oil internationally</a>. Iranian sellers are =
already <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/BNZOU4QKgkJXpPF=
feGQrPO5GnqYoQEWLe2FHvKVK2aKlU599NAQd8VBcUuIvYCUBCNrzMXeMpNw5xdjbcL3rgS11fl=
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6J0i8UJsYAeJgpwN/Ees2OYTtlSihl8iGW5aFzK8ygxA4JLGU/22" rel=3D"noopener noref=
errer" title=3D"Iran Rushes to Woo Asia=E2=80=99s Top Oil Importers After U=
S Waiver" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underl=
ine;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">approaching refiners</a>=
 in India, Japan and South Korea.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:=
16px">Tehran says $12 billion in <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg=
.com/a/sc/thVv9UeEEwys16_bnQmSJluRiWmO6XxQCqW6Qo5Pn1PoOg_jTTo3H40aHi0hoansX=
OYk65ZNy45f2p9bFszkX-TtbenY8hwTb1NtM03TjouAj8I9M0QByHI2lURyToYTqZC-JjYYD2H_=
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2" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Trump Defends Unfreezing Iran Funds=
 as Senate Rebukes Him on War" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-d=
ecoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">fro=
zen assets</a> is being released in two installments.</p><p style=3D"margin=
-top:24px;font-size:16px">Still, the thorniest issues are nowhere near to b=
eing resolved.</p><a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/zhfmw=
GAEj_-FLi4kYVp-ro86bm0cW0VoVbIGgBw2VU2tk3iRKKHL-yoDLzerG1KncbODU8jZ7eotujiU=
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play:block;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank"> <img src=3D"https://ass=
ets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOZ7NH4pFe8U/v3/-1x-1.jpg" alt=3D"Blo=
omberg=E2=80=99s Abeer Abu Omar has the latest on the talks and conflicting=
 claims from the negotiations." style=3D"width:100%;display:block;max-width=
:580px;margin-bottom:0"> <img src=3D"https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iq=
jWHBFdfxIU/iuquhjMLDeIY/v0/-1x-1.png" alt=3D"Watch now" style=3D"width:100%=
;display:block;margin-bottom:4px;max-width:580px"></a><div style=3D"font-si=
ze:14px;line-height:1.4">Bloomberg=E2=80=99s Abeer Abu Omar has the latest =
on the talks and conflicting claims from the negotiations.</div><p style=3D=
"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">Washington says Iran agreed to sweeping nu=
clear inspections. Tehran says that=E2=80=99s false. No limits on uranium e=
nrichment have been agreed, and Iran insists its ballistic-missile program =
is outside the deal.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">The two=
 sides also contradict each other over money. Trump says unfrozen funds wil=
l remain in a US-controlled escrow account and pay for imports of American =
food and medicine. Iran says it alone will decide how the money is spent.</=
p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">While ships <a href=3D"https:=
//links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/ye0CNHolU1FJfvKAq3Dz4zglBh5ykQNEHt4Te6v6=
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inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:sol=
id" target=3D"_blank">are moving</a> through Hormuz again, there=E2=80=99s =
no agreement over how the crucial waterway will be administered. Iran wants=
 <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/bAOp8hP-y6VKPkgZsPW3nn=
S6rxLtT66JtbX-FVu9k7rORqG6jrAisuxM5pG0u97yuauaCxEHDNzqfYIg-STOshxVhjxfQD7BK=
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31usrH8nA/Sa7gBxa7e1Tr-G4kEE8_f1yy6z9UID3L/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" =
title=3D"Iran, Oman Say They=E2=80=99ll Work on Pact for Hormuz Transit Cos=
ts" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;te=
xt-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">a formal role</a> and has prop=
osed insurance requirements that could lead to fees.</p><p style=3D"margin-=
top:24px;font-size:16px">Lebanon is the most likely trigger for a quick ret=
urn to fighting.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">Iran says o=
ngoing Israeli operations breach the agreement. Israel says it won=E2=80=99=
t withdraw until the Lebanese army can prevent the Iran-backed Hezbollah mi=
litia from returning. Today, Tehran added it would raise Israel=E2=80=99s a=
ttacks on Hamas in Gaza with the US.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-si=
ze:16px">Any of these disputes has the potential to unravel the deal and wi=
pe out the good vibes Trump and Iran are working so hard to project.<em sty=
le=3D"font-size:16px"> </em><em style=3D"font-size:16px">=E2=80=94 </em><a =
href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/s/c/x8KvhGoTqzekTIviXsNCpJ_h3uC=
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WoPHwEOB7MMkPAcxKImraIo0IQhCGred2i55Ea7p9gmWxAaeRtHx4MU9PRokE6hFDeUtTW5Y2gn=
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UiLzw/l76ptUdJMgUkk4wSLrF-uqoKqXbEhPKB/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" titl=
e=3D"Peter Martin - Defense Policy &amp; Intelligence Reporter | Bloomberg"=
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decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank"><em style=3D"font-size:16px">Pete=
r Martin</em></a></p> <img src=3D"https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWH=
BFdfxIU/iHCyy4sUOzdo/v0/-1x-1.jpg" alt=3D"Women walk through Enghelab Squar=
e in Tehran on June 3. Photographer: Atta Kenare&amp;#x2F;AFP&amp;#x2F;Gett=
y Images" style=3D"width:100%;display:block;margin-bottom:4px;max-width:580=
px"><div style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.4">Women walk through Enghel=
ab Square in Tehran on June 3.</div><div style=3D"font-size:14px;line-heigh=
t:1.4;font-style:italic">Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images</div><t=
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ign=3D"top"><div style=3D"display:none;overflow:hidden;width:0;max-height:0=
;line-height:0" class=3D"m_4275485690408444858mq-lishow"><table width=3D"au=
to" cellpadding=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" align=3D"center"><tbody><tr><td ali=
gn=3D"center" valign=3D"top" style=3D"padding:0 0"><a href=3D"https://links=
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22" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;te=
xt-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank"><img src=3D"https://sli.bloomb=
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d></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style=3D"font-si=
ze:24px;line-height:30px;font-weight:700;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px so=
lid;margin-top:40px">Global Must Reads</h3><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font=
-size:16px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">Premier Li Qiang</strong> <str=
ong style=3D"font-size:16px">played down worries</strong> about the disrupt=
ion wrought by surging Chinese exports on the global economy, saying his na=
tion =E2=80=9Cprovides the world with <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloo=
mberg.com/a/sc/55SGDQBeYydN5JZHE6gIMctJ-s4xbUmquM9uVYwlGtlf9Hbekamu-z9YZFzy=
6jsCNqymd8PEWavqJvG1kThxZr4_WRBzUNfW9vjpCTlLRBLgsRpvyprkn9VmJws-ReSTFPyONZt=
hCp3L8Wp6Cz_fGKahC1vc-BcW6Xm6Xm_jCPJewPEfzakXqf2f5QH2oUYb5vs_hXqanAeco9pQEH=
MPCDfv9qHCrcw053owLfvcLg6eLcPjj9JnplNI3aIZjyhv6fscAZQlo4wHccyY_ghJ5X3cCQusH=
hCqK_expjJtBBuT5fP76tVg_nLWVh5YgHefyicYBbEpXW9wdQuli7TcEW1WAS7L61hClawugQMY=
KJ-cgQ092o1mVepXjvsEmF8iSQAVJlCWczTxTpkKMFo1GwvHcZNLd6xOQd_S2o6NptQrc9xYsaY=
FzwYPK9ySQ1d0EGxsc6gvf9e8DjA1PaRg7VLPYNaxp16_DOng9gyyEIV4hedevFJdCuRXiahqNb=
uPoKvRhnr2prVPmEL6NjxEqupVawasKjqQUYl-mmQNP2wS/OOvGhwdAwmYwxbQkS7wJ6tfbrq9P=
yy6q/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Beijing Unfazed by China Shoc=
k 2.0 as Premier Touts Openness" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text=
-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">i=
ncreasing dividends</a> of innovation through technological progress and in=
dustrial upgrading.=E2=80=9D China=E2=80=99s widening trade surplus with ma=
jor partners has come under increased scrutiny as policymakers around the w=
orld weigh measures to counter a flood of exports.</p><p style=3D"margin-to=
p:24px;font-size:16px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">China is choking of=
f shipments</strong> of critical minerals to Japan, a slowdown that=E2=80=
=99s <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/5twh2xZ4wtV5xsa3G8=
vyZN72j-VEahT3oBkN1ZGed33t82mJT3yE5wc_8ZpOIj3SvetlpVSkRWL8QQ73D-XKh78jPTTCA=
caVpu7rPfbwo3sTkqrIK1XQUeqJzYJ9JqKhyJphE_GGI8unS6ADrkacZTVS0brktklulixw2W1m=
vibxJeq886xmTKIHqhPvlVVIQHKb9Jr22pL8bvinkRyeaTVpcAfsoEeuR5ePgyYPqZkpBEq7KZI=
uUeLj1c5urN6To4SRTfv6onidmefuMYY91CleezWnAlKufwvV_NNPnu7btBCEhDqYS46Cf9EGsf=
Z5lKGfy2LoBP-3j-EVrWYCZHYUT_wx16X3NxGhKjqjePKlwQStsq-oxX0sPoqn7djigv0quT8cd=
xvJh0W1CQjcM3KyXoNCrMzNkX9Oc5lkr1_jQwrkkQn_noVvUqsFLh3ZXyfTXHwkz1nh_8PrRiob=
M-eE_MQVBNLtDMeyMWmRCQDZbjDLTKP2S14x0Pi-eLpyG3tgUYjFljACDEA47ja-o1EOxwkFINF=
sLeBdnC_XZJQ08Q/RFHjQw6BXYBa0qAOiK6ShLYGO39oiQDl/22" rel=3D"noopener norefe=
rrer" title=3D"Xi Pressures Takaichi by Throttling Key Mineral Exports to J=
apan" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;=
text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">hurting companies</a> and pr=
ompting calls for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to find a solution=
 to a spat with Beijing over the Taiwan issue. Also, Japanese Chief Cabinet=
 Secretary Minoru Kihara said China detained two people from his country in=
 May on suspicion of smuggling prohibited goods =E2=80=94 as Beijing <a hre=
f=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/AywVdw_M-ef2XZJqb0j-RvY5pJu-c=
I2nL6vQogBhTk59nAT6lbMBQGWP2fqHLLRZDNNJCOucnnglZ2gyUalyKMm05OkFctQP6Kf3B4dI=
FCT9Cau8qHWzgIAhDIlL2EeUXZtyZM4n5eFvGz9ZjE0EUQXDttULzZZKB3iVnugcw6DEp4tXMKd=
6xHHHDqcjGx50zd27u3SyD_88jKAj0Ocdky5OMCHLSaUcPP7FEpQX3cnBr1XCus5OrUZgNMrmZw=
aQJXGgEIqYU6GceQ6Bs4F86w1mF4c_oLJ5zYcK3sVd8lmz6bVjUlZDnb-ezso5fR5BMNKCFJsEo=
tHL_V1su-u5PRHXm3sRLxMt5w1iC2Zip6-Vp0box4Huo0eDi4U9MACOqCv35qx9jozeWJNWvUN8=
6MZmYpUqp2nE98ZxReFywd_A6o31mSE7eKAX_atiputM_6PDQnbMgDPgBGbL6Hu3JwMoaXCY0Ew=
AfW7d5hxrw_vICpdIuUfSOkUb8Czj9X3WQ9ZecQkXT7MRm2Y4cqs1GWoqvRquNp6U9ufPpsmE/1=
Y6oKSUlMaXWwS23NAQG_OOiCDaYKK3g/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Ch=
ina Detained Two Japanese in May on Suspicion of Smuggling" style=3D"font-s=
ize:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style=
:solid" target=3D"_blank">wages a campaign</a> against illicit activity lin=
ked to the rare earths industry.</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:1=
6px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">Italy=E2=80=99s Foreign Minister=C2=
=A0Antonio Tajani</strong>=C2=A0sought to mend fences with the US, saying t=
he countries should work to <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/=
a/sc/f1YgxXgYEfKvlBuaNu0pWbVeVa-GGTwQ8qpm7si3If2fv-r40nmkofCQtEiplldr7EtH-2=
zlIiOeVzOYt9ZLgPp8HCh2FB8Y7a0cuDOg6xtZhpY261tPk4f2xAPOFn5e_YUWFmSyOwh5u23gT=
EtWHDw_36Jveyynboml3uPzaMsfXGV2RlEx0-12MjlIDRbLA4YF7P7BbLDNV5bP4NbMtKFePUQC=
nkH9aL6PZCOIJt3Sgl0wjNyrFR6yvwQtGP81jI2Hn3GeOVBkOvXLiImwFE-KI_3ZuRFFbujLotm=
S6-sT-sxD19gzUjxahCbtsCL1wkauYz4nsBVxyOJbIS9Rgh_rmtHLVXPqBf6uOAlArfXahf_LxE=
SWVUy3FYx4JvXvP_luWQeWtwjklUpQvVJNfm4DMxUUxEvI5Zp8L94D6AF_XU78KXKctYHqTsBgD=
AULBdxEj86t4bas0blK7wamhKbLJNN1CMLasPQkRgmsErNqPlkm4CtU5nlNI1LFrD054DwxGfK_=
q4Bzoa1Y4cIx1oL9qP_IDAPpNTgt-DZfZ641/zK5RgquIPZu4fusb2au4V1VucfcHRJX3/22" r=
el=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Italy Seeks to Mend Ties With the US Af=
ter Trump-Meloni Blowout" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decora=
tion-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">de-escal=
ate tensions</a> after a spat between Trump=C2=A0and premier=C2=A0Giorgia M=
eloni. What had begun as an effusive relationship began to descend into acr=
imony in April, when Meloni publicly condemned the war in Iran and the US l=
eader=E2=80=99s attacks on Pope Leo XIV, leading to Tajani canceling a trip=
 to Miami last week for a planned business summit.</p> <img src=3D"https://=
assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHrucMfUppYk/v0/-1x-1.jpg" alt=3D"=
Italy&amp;#39;s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US President Donald Trump=
 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla&amp;#x2F;Getty I=
mages" style=3D"width:100%;display:block;margin-bottom:4px;max-width:580px"=
><div style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.4">Meloni and Trump in Sharm El=
-Sheikh, Egypt.</div><div style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;font-styl=
e:italic">Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</div><p style=3D"marg=
in-top:24px;font-size:16px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">The victory of=
=C2=A0Abelardo de la Espriella</strong>, a conservative backed by Trump, in=
 Colombia=E2=80=99s presidential election marks a sharp turn for a country =
that had sought to be a leader of a global transition away from oil, coal a=
nd gas.=C2=A0The latest representative of a populist right wave in Latin Am=
erica, de la Espriella<strong style=3D"font-size:16px"> </strong>has urged =
increased production of oil and gas, with his call for =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"=
https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/SNlkwhql4B2lTOEf3RPhmK38GAMVxVq6CR=
ZK5kKtSE3MO_v_AOD76IUsXkHZdsDs8hgQL_Ox36hy3eYaqfvQlGojjzkCJA4J3I1xq_s5eNX6t=
gBqn168CXe4eZJqR0YVmAZuuH5iMARxfOqFNW1eJdT92yaMWhAe-mrgTOMrhaijlm3CnC2QFjQB=
HnpYCqWftWUcTMoigXzoQhOnJIi580WVl0bRFZdObFJfH6S0Hfm_3MwuCUaeTzF9xSD9XB1QD5r=
w4T0HlNwbM0i0H8tLXp811Ogd4BHt1sTy8VMtQP8D4GNk3eNZBpgWO6K4FyvPD-W2ZH_CNEzBM8=
yhIK2vpmbA0ttzcqSWnMwMVsgT2nDmHGodLh6zXLC-q51IFgEkQnrlvhnwVXJ9qGcIIr2OWAs-a=
TrStEiinu-bfR0nv1AvEfanSq5Isqqmd7Z9i1LZeaG1U4RlWNezdFDsQbTEmjfXTj1yM_WfjA8X=
dGar1CgvR5rsTHzkVWq3mCFlZeY56Qnh3Cvt9pFDzwj8U7soeQqesRFOIdq_lj7HRIF18o38CPN=
RUTozV7U7tzDa9w/Osaalx9psq1kNfwrczE5SyS1JwnBcOBv/22" rel=3D"noopener norefe=
rrer" title=3D"Victory of Trump Ally Ends Colombia=E2=80=99s Crusade to Wea=
n World Off Fossil Fuels" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decora=
tion-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">fracking=
 to the max</a>=E2=80=9D echoing Trump=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cdrill, baby, dril=
l=E2=80=9D embrace of fossil-fuel expansion.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin-to=
p:24px;font-size:16px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">Conservative=C2=A0K=
eiko Fujimori=C2=A0is poised</strong> to become Peru=E2=80=99s next preside=
nt after running her fourth consecutive campaign, despite rival Roberto S=
=C3=A1nchez <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/SCvL-8H8Z1h=
zA1KuzjPv5JIPYzzoHuAhvSs8wLa0qojOJ1P3oRHoezp7hznPHsl1mUNhenSeYfQUsQKoaghUQ8=
wnkQo4afdz_yGSS-NhWAzHKjVG7yeYW-7uOxQ3UI6USpCifhRHSNdVi3qgqUMuAj2uZXWeKEP0x=
FmQ6q7PH7GRIRaTKXFe9gs6-zK_pI49qFodkReXDPXQqEdL2SWBUFLNo03EYdzWTZWi4OuInXJ7=
ymxth0D0FAvpYbvxQPQmVjstwENJ_trWpwIpVbpbaPx1QKWvxzUaJaEn1fmJk1645X3D_3d-E08=
JwH3jW3XlSBbmLK5JHuvFz3CJxNaMFVqUsZBGKeC0hIbdPv0uAcl2TbK5-3xASidtlNaIAyA-gN=
luBoNicrQFVtujMVEHNnyx6oWMYxtdbsuF8xrEueqUu6413lqIKRI2OfbTAgV_wjDwSCMIv3hAS=
mkZjl8bZp6hQMDJJgWOw6AjICjIcKGqAnJlMERSonZ4iFo74CXvecPNjjz3cPxVVA-ubwZljp1X=
vre-9UoUZyy65ZTTfxpHc99tPcMMgoklhMPwQg/f0VJUDVyCedLbTHjI0qWTDwqs7NG3NZj/22"=
 rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Conservative Fujimori Poised to Win P=
eru=E2=80=99s Presidency, Vote Count Shows" style=3D"font-size:inherit;colo=
r:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=
=3D"_blank">claiming irregularities</a>. The outcome would finally deliver =
Fujimori the job she has sought since 2011 and make her the first woman ele=
cted president of the politically turbulent nation, while also reassuring i=
nvestors who favor her pro-business policies.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin-t=
op:24px;font-size:16px"><strong style=3D"font-size:16px">Germany signaled i=
t will move ahead</strong> with=C2=A0plans=C2=A0to impose lower drug prices=
 on pharmaceutical companies, calling a=C2=A0US accusation=C2=A0of unfair t=
rade practices =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc=
/PZ17B2SdkuBx6LEXmoyuP9w4aMbyrowsUEQX1O142VdlCoKlHpgMTEtf3e9NExRrrqMVrLqBgL=
2X6GtkNxifwla8EMkaM_iyQXSsExeTW2Tp6VTrURkGMxktAILZkrjcz6w2T4r5a7iNv0CZmsDX0=
yylyh8EXyCIaV6AlD6tC-Dx4SJSCvNmA1nuy_z498cvQ7qHavjNYqwhvfBygUl8dtfQWo1e42iL=
a-Nl0sAJZ0Q-wxaxuq3oWVWDizB6G447UaXBi91m5L5-mqIxjfh_UG1r2a3yxqyBOPVFN3gTuNS=
kA0EKAyFTSUv0wPVTHpWiQSoInnEk2FV-9h9HM5prV8MxiRp6Fg40cJ3nLT8XPygL4UAeYbprwX=
9nWHmUKQBhJ-TPDt2ZHpaLP8hHkrJM2vNXZTgKqlRcsv4DjATmJr6KhZ41zyVKKz1qu6ldcbVeQ=
tODjve-35ZbC2G8jFVHgQr3DOgW2Yaq1Jtj_1fnqnu5Y0j-YWU_J5rz8OabKrroo3T2QuGRCzj2=
lTwfvjCyXg6IY0yU0pqi8LtAKRoUiAQa/w98GP224EGBad3iFEQRMt1n7SFrTuME_/22" rel=
=3D"noopener noreferrer" title=3D"Germany Sticks to Plan for Cuts in Drug P=
rices Despite US Probe" style=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decorati=
on-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">unfounded<=
/a>.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px"><strong style=
=3D"font-size:16px">Trump=C2=A0said that six people</strong> have been arre=
sted for <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomberg.com/a/sc/CxMdf-nNdQFX4Z=
7QI4s7HAtfPYxUXwaQrw8B52CYjP8OYIDiUmI-0GQqLIXacOYauh7SF8OTGKqBBDSgUm9ZejN1Q=
yos-dsFZu9dea6c08jbGJYvgohMxoZQQhMWhZZtWmEEeE1aOxusfQ19eLOqBiWOmbSNVjabjW_1=
Su5O7dJzE3z8GXBiK9seZydVIoNoMSl4YUloR2yy1YSx5QkrS0HN6z_5XEaKKKU4jH5a8TxgwU4=
9qI0p7_Yi-AikdlM1m5XuX9HDkkPCg2SKX4Ghm9p1YKO3PHkR00ke04ivdXLLxZ13C1TlcDMySu=
NTxEg9wZBBwnx6fbcOZ7S_UD77q1cJaz5qhcfEH3YCUN-dESYYWpj0arVzfGEDO1xKIrAGAWDAK=
_WPJTYQ2aQ33ucEjUv3HDqlJHUenCwQir75zjI63xO4zK9dlv6Y8SEMTypCPCq9mLlfy7x6Aohy=
pR1Ahqyd8jKrHlYP45cLZINzvNoeHJM8W5GdkReaudzCJ8d73RtUrMj1ZtPmDH4xEq9EDCKHbxN=
zP_BswZnHGw/3-hYres7b2_7PTCJT6laAOV2g5J5U1_Z/22" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer=
" title=3D"Six Arrested for Alleged Reflecting Pool Damage, Trump Says" sty=
le=3D"font-size:inherit;color:#00e;text-decoration-line:underline;text-deco=
ration-style:solid" target=3D"_blank">allegedly damaging</a> the Lincoln Me=
morial Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued by algae and peeling paint a=
fter a renovation that he directed.=C2=A0</p> <img src=3D"https://assets.bw=
bx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iC9rXXZ3aLzM/v8/-1x-1.jpg" alt=3D"Workers c=
lean algae from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after it was painted b=
lue in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. A Washington federa=
l judge wrestled with how reversible President Donald Trump&amp;#39;s effor=
ts to change the color of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be, in=
 the latest lawsuit targeting Trump&amp;#39;s moves to renovate some of Was=
hington&amp;#39;s historic landmarks. Photographer: Aaron Schwartz&amp;#x2F=
;Bloomberg " style=3D"width:100%;display:block;margin-bottom:4px;max-width:=
580px"><div style=3D"font-size:14px;line-height:1.4">Workers clean algae fr=
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UK=E2=80=99s next prime minister after=C2=A0Darren Jones, who had been talk=
ed up as a potential rival, said he <a href=3D"https://links.message.bloomb=
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4px;font-size:16px">The European Union=E2=80=99s regime for monitoring publ=
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ughest health test</a> since a revamp after the pandemic. In a year when ma=
rket jitters roiled economies from the UK to Japan, a move by the European =
Commission to grant a bit more budget room to indebted governments such as =
Italy hasn=E2=80=99t upset investors, and isn=E2=80=99t causing sovereign a=
nalysts to flinch either.</p><h3 style=3D"font-size:24px;line-height:30px;f=
ont-weight:700;padding-top:12px;border-top:1px solid;margin-top:40px">And F=
inally</h3><p style=3D"margin-top:24px;font-size:16px">Finland=E2=80=99s Na=
tional Defense Course is designed to get leaders, and future leaders, think=
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tioning during a national emergency. Politicians, academics, museum directo=
rs and military commanders are among those who take part in briefings and v=
isits to strategic facilities over a period of three to four weeks, sleepin=
g in barracks and wearing fatigues. =E2=80=9CThe war in Ukraine has shown e=
xactly why a course like this is needed,=E2=80=9D said Arto R=C3=A4ty, a re=
tired general who once led it.</p> <img src=3D"https://assets.bwbx.io/image=
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FM: John Whitbeck

It is not normally expected that primaries in elections for the U.S. House
of Representatives could have a major impact on American foreign policy,
but last night's Democratic Party primaries in New York City could prove to
be a virtuous exception to the rule.

As reported in the NEW YORK TIMES article transmitted below, three
uber-Zionist candidates (two of them incumbents) whose campaigns were
lavishly financed by Israel-First money have been defeated by candidates
supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Politicians, like most people in all walks of life or even more so, are
motivated primarily by their own personal self-interests.

It is fair to assume that the decades-long practice of the overwhelming
majority of members of Congress to prioritize the desires of the Israeli
government over ther interests of the American people has not been
motivated by any genuine, deeply held conviction but rather by a firm
belief that doing so has been and will always be essential to their
survival and advancement in American politics.

If incumbent and aspiring politicians perceive that *even* *in* *New* *York=
*
*City* prioritizing the desires of the Israeli government over the
interests of the American people is likely to be detrimental -- or even
fatal -- to their survival and advancement in American politics, an
earthquake of genuinely America-First patriotism could -- indeed, should --
shake the U.S. Congress and transform the next presidential election cycle.

These primary results could -- indeed, should -- even have a critical
impact on imminent votes on legislation to permanently merge or integrate
aspects of the American and Israeli military and intelligence services.

One can hope.
Mamdani=E2=80=99s allies sweep congressional primaries in New York City.
<https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/23/nyregion/primary-elections-ny-mary=
land-utah?campaign_id=3D346&emc=3Dedit_wor_20260624&instance_id=3D177680&nl=
=3Dthe-world&regi_id=3D62811615&segment_id=3D221996&user_id=3Dd6c2bf1770e15=
6716a4c39890dfe5003#mamdani-politics-influence>

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies swept a series of congressional
primaries in New York City on Tuesday in a remarkable show of strength for
the insurgent left that sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.

Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s candidates toppled a pair of incumbents backed by the=
 city=E2=80=99s
political establishment, including major labor unions and the House
Democratic leader. Another candidate backed by the mayor won an open House
seat, and a handful of democratic socialist challengers he supported were
winning down the ballot.

For months, Mr. Mamdani threw himself and his energized political
organization into the three marquee congressional contests, campaigning
late into the night in the race=E2=80=99s final days and calling the electi=
on a
referendum on the direction of the party.

*All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s progressive economi=
c
platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending
American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted
on the issue, even in New York.*

Late Tuesday night, the mayor stood beaming at a victory party in Brooklyn,
where supporters chanted =E2=80=9C*Free, free Palestine*=E2=80=9D and =E2=
=80=9CD.S.A.=E2=80=9D After
embracing many of the same advisers who led his own successful campaign
last year, he declared =E2=80=9Ca new chapter in our party=E2=80=99s histor=
y.=E2=80=9D

=E2=80=9CA year ago, it was not the end of a political movement,=E2=80=9D h=
e said. =E2=80=9CIt was
the beginning.=E2=80=9D

Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s deep involvement amounted to an audacious gamble for =
a
brand-new mayor trying to lead an already fractious city. He alienated key
allies along the way, but the payoffs were far-reaching.

At home, the outcome will now cement him as the unquestioned political
kingmaker of the nation=E2=80=99s cultural and financial capital and the De=
mocratic
Socialists of America as a formidable force.

[image: Mr. Mamdani, a microphone in his hand, hugs Claire Valdez.]
Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, hugging Mr. Mamdani at her victory party, was
encouraged to run by the mayor. Credit...Bing Guan for The New York Times

The results also shook the foundations of the Democratic Party far beyond
the five boroughs. When they are certified, Mr. Mamdani, 34, and his
movement will be on track to double the number of socialists in Congress
from two to four. The outcome will also force a Democratic Party, already
searching for its identity, to reckon with its ascendant, unapologetic left=
.

=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s seismic,=E2=80=9D said Jon Paul Lupo, a Democratic co=
nsultant who was a top
adviser to the city=E2=80=99s last progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio.

The races do not necessarily suggest Mr. Mamdani has expanded his appeal.
Each of the contests in which he endorsed took place in areas where the
mayor won comfortably in last year=E2=80=99s election and remains deeply po=
pular.

But Tuesday=E2=80=99s results showed two things about his young mayoralty. =
Mr.
Mamdani has a high tolerance for political risk-taking, well beyond that of
any of his modern predecessors. And, at least for now, he has the ability
to transfer his high-wattage political brand onto other candidates in a way
that only a few politicians in any office have been able to.

Brad Lander, 56, a close ally whom Mr. Mamdani urged to run for Congress,
ran up a *staggering 30-point margin* in an affluent Brooklyn and Lower
Manhattan district. He defeated Representative Daniel Goldman, a wealthy
Levi Strauss heir who had opposed the mayor in last year=E2=80=99s election=
s and
had *close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee*, the
pro-Israel lobby.

Claire Valdez, 36, a little-known state assemblywoman also recruited by Mr.
Mamdani to run, ran up larger than expected margins for an open seat in a
gentrifying swath of Brooklyn and Queens so far left it has been nicknamed
the =E2=80=9CCommie Corridor.=E2=80=9D

She defeated Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, who had far
deeper roots in the district and the support of the popular congresswoman,
Representative Nydia Vel=C3=A1zquez, who is retiring; the left-leaning Work=
ing
Families Party; and nearly every major labor union in the city.

And Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s allies even won in a predominantly Black and Domi=
nican
district in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. In perhaps the night=E2=80=99s m=
ost
surprising victory, Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, another democratic
socialist who entered the race as a political unknown, narrowly knocked off
Representative Adriano Espaillat, the influential chairman of the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

[image: Darializa Avila Chevalier holds a microphone as others, including
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, stand to her side.]
Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s last primary night appearance was at the victory part=
y for
Darializa Avila Chevalier, center. Credit...Lexi Parra/The New York Times

=E2=80=9CThis is a wake-up call,=E2=80=9D said Letitia James, the state=E2=
=80=99s progressive
attorney general, who supported Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s mayoral campaign but =
ended up
opposed to him on Tuesday.

=E2=80=9CObviously, there=E2=80=99s some hurt feelings tonight, particularl=
y in communities
of color,=E2=80=9D she said, adding, =E2=80=9CWhat we have to do is sit dow=
n and work with
the left-leaning part of the party and see if we can come to some sort of
understanding going forward.=E2=80=9D

Where previous mayors have taken a wide berth around intraparty primaries,
Mr. Mamdani dove in. Before he even clinched his own mayoral win, he began
recruiting candidates to run for seats he felt were ripe for leftist wins.
He headlined fund-raisers, appeared in ads and dispatched his top political
advisers to run two of the campaigns.

In the race=E2=80=99s final days, Mr. Mamdani exhausted himself shuttling b=
etween
events with Ms. Valdez and Ms. Avila Chevalier, who were in the closest
races. Wherever the mayor went, large crowds seemed to materialize.

Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s aggressive interventions were not without collateral =
damage.
His positions on some of the races put him at odds with the Working
Families Party, prominent Black and Latino Democrats, major labor unions
and members of the City Council, all of whom had supported his campaign for
mayor and are now involved in his governing agenda.

He infuriated Ms. Vel=C3=A1zquez, Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s first supporter in =
Congress, who
believed the mayor should have deferred to her wishes about a successor.
She came to accuse the D.S.A. in particular of trying to erase the
contributions she and other progressives had made to pushing the city
leftward for decades.

Others, including Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic
leader, were even more upset when Mr. Mamdani decided in May to endorse Ms.
Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist activist and Ph.D. student, and
break with Mr. Espaillat.

Mr. Espaillat did not back Mr. Mamdani in last year=E2=80=99s primary, but
afterward, he quickly endorsed him and brought along Latino support. Mr.
Mamdani had privately assured Mr. Espaillat
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/nyregion/adriano-espaillat-darializa-av=
ila-chevalier-mamdani.html>
at the time that he would reciprocate if he ever needed it.

The mayor never explained his change of heart in detail, but his advisers
said he watched Ms. Avila Chevalier=E2=80=99s momentum and believed he coul=
d make a
difference in the race. Supporters of Mr. Espaillat were furious, and said
they could no longer trust Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s word.

The outcome on Tuesday could pose particular problems for Mr. Jeffries, the
New Yorker in line to become speaker if Democrats reclaim control of the
House this year. Ms. Valdez and Ms. Avila Chevalier have not committed to
supporting Mr. Jeffries=E2=80=99s leadership bid and could become persisten=
t thorns
in his side.

Democrats aligned with Mr. Jeffries, who fought hard to defeat Ms. Avila
Chevalier, have privately raised concerns about her victory in particular.
They fear that Republicans will weaponize a trove of her inflammatory old
social media posts
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/nyregion/avila-chevalier-social-media.h=
tml>,
including saying that =E2=80=9Call deportations are wrong=E2=80=9D and usin=
g crude language
about Kamala Harris, against more moderate Democrats running in swing
districts that will decide the fate of the House this fall.

Mr. Jeffries repeatedly sidestepped the issue during an interview on NY1
Tuesday night as the results came in. Others were less reticent to register
concerns.

=E2=80=9CRepublicans will very quickly seek to elevate, as they always do, =
the most
radical voices in the Democratic Party,=E2=80=9D said Howard Wolfson, a for=
mer head
of the House Democrats=E2=80=99 campaign arm and a top adviser to Michael R=
.
Bloomberg. =E2=80=9CAnd after tonight, they will have more radical Democrat=
s to
choose from.=E2=80=9D

Mr. Mamdani and his allies saw it very differently.

Gustavo Gordillo, a D.S.A. co-chair in New York, said that his organization
was already casting its attention to next year=E2=80=99s budget fight in Al=
bany and
beyond.

=E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re going to start thinking about 2028 and what comes ne=
xt,=E2=80=9D he said.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><div=
><font size=3D"4">FM: John Whitbeck<br>
        <br>
        It is not normally expected that primaries in elections for the
        U.S. House of Representatives could have a major impact on
        American foreign policy, but last night&#39;s Democratic Party
        primaries in New York City could prove to be a virtuous
        exception to the rule.<br>
        <br>
        As reported in the NEW YORK TIMES article transmitted below,
        three uber-Zionist candidates (two of them incumbents) whose
        campaigns were lavishly financed by Israel-First money have been
        defeated by candidates supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<br>
        <br>
        Politicians, like most people in all walks of life or even more
        so, are motivated primarily by their own personal
        self-interests.<br>
        <br>
        It is fair to assume that the decades-long practice of the
        overwhelming majority of members of Congress to prioritize the
        desires of the Israeli government over ther interests of the
        American people has not been motivated by any genuine, deeply
        held conviction but rather by a firm belief that doing so has
        been and will always be essential to their survival and
        advancement in American politics.<br>
        <br>
        If incumbent and aspiring politicians perceive that <u>even</u>
        <u>in</u> <u>New</u> <u>York</u> <u>City</u> prioritizing the
        desires of the Israeli government over the interests of the
        American people is likely to be detrimental -- or even fatal --
        to their survival and advancement in American politics, an
        earthquake of genuinely America-First patriotism could --
        indeed, should -- shake the U.S. Congress and transform the next
        presidential election cycle.<br>
        <br>
        These primary results could -- indeed, should -- even have a
        critical impact on imminent votes on legislation to permanently
        merge or integrate aspects of the American and Israeli military
        and intelligence services.<br>
        <br>
        One can hope.<br>
      </font>
     =20
      <div>
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"6"><a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/23/nyregion/primary-ele=
ctions-ny-maryland-utah?campaign_id=3D346&amp;emc=3Dedit_wor_20260624&amp;i=
nstance_id=3D177680&amp;nl=3Dthe-world&amp;regi_id=3D62811615&amp;segment_i=
d=3D221996&amp;user_id=3Dd6c2bf1770e156716a4c39890dfe5003#mamdani-politics-=
influence" target=3D"_blank">Mamdani=E2=80=99s allies sweep
              congressional primaries in New York City.</a></font></h3>
      </div>
      <p><font size=3D"4">Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies swept a serie=
s of
          congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday in a
          remarkable show of strength for the insurgent left that sent
          shock waves through the Democratic Party.</font></p>
      <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s candidates toppled a pair o=
f incumbents
          backed by the city=E2=80=99s political establishment, including m=
ajor
          labor unions and the House Democratic leader. Another
          candidate backed by the mayor won an open House seat, and a
          handful of democratic socialist challengers he supported were
          winning down the ballot.</font></p>
      <div>
        <p><font size=3D"4">For months, Mr. Mamdani threw himself and his
            energized political organization into the three marquee
            congressional contests, campaigning late into the night in
            the race=E2=80=99s final days and calling the election a refere=
ndum
            on the direction of the party.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4"><b>All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani=
=E2=80=99s
              progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns
              that focused intently on ending American support for
              Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on
              the issue, even in New York.</b></font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Late Tuesday night, the mayor stood beaming at =
a
            victory party in Brooklyn, where supporters chanted =E2=80=9C<b=
>Free,
              free Palestine</b>=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CD.S.A.=E2=80=9D Afte=
r embracing many of
            the same advisers who led his own successful campaign last
            year, he declared =E2=80=9Ca new chapter in our party=E2=80=99s=
 history.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CA year ago, it was not the end of a po=
litical
            movement,=E2=80=9D he said. =E2=80=9CIt was the beginning.=E2=
=80=9D</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s deep involvement amounted=
 to an
            audacious gamble for a brand-new mayor trying to lead an
            already fractious city. He alienated key allies along the
            way, but the payoffs were far-reaching.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">At home, the outcome will now cement him as the
            unquestioned political kingmaker of the nation=E2=80=99s cultur=
al
            and financial capital and the Democratic Socialists of
            America as a formidable force.</font></p>
        <div>
         =20
            <div><br>
              <div>
                <div style=3D"height:auto"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><img=
 alt=3D"Mr. Mamdani, a microphone in his hand, hugs Claire Valdez." src=3D"=
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/07/23/multimedia/23met-primaries-tjpc/=
23met-primaries-tjpc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75&amp;auto=3Dwebp&amp;disa=
ble=3Dupscale"><u></u></div>
              </div>
            </div>
            <span>Assemblywoman Claire
                Valdez, hugging Mr. Mamdani at her victory party, was
                encouraged to run by the mayor.=C2=A0</span><span><span>Cre=
dit...</span><span><span aria-hidden=3D"false">Bing Guan for The New York T=
imes</span></span></span>
        </div>
        <p><font size=3D"4">The results also shook the foundations of the
            Democratic Party far beyond the five boroughs. When they are
            certified, Mr. Mamdani, 34, and his movement will be on
            track to double the number of socialists in Congress from
            two to four. The outcome will also force a Democratic Party,
            already searching for its identity, to reckon with its
            ascendant, unapologetic left.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s seismic,=E2=80=9D said Jo=
n Paul Lupo, a Democratic
            consultant who was a top adviser to the city=E2=80=99s last
            progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">The races do not necessarily suggest Mr. Mamdan=
i
            has expanded his appeal. Each of the contests in which he
            endorsed took place in areas where the mayor won comfortably
            in last year=E2=80=99s election and remains deeply popular.</fo=
nt></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">But Tuesday=E2=80=99s results showed two things=
 about his
            young mayoralty. Mr. Mamdani has a high tolerance for
            political risk-taking, well beyond that of any of his modern
            predecessors. And, at least for now, he has the ability to
            transfer his high-wattage political brand onto other
            candidates in a way that only a few politicians in any
            office have been able to.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Brad Lander, 56, a close ally whom Mr. Mamdani
            urged to run for Congress, ran up a <b>staggering 30-point
              margin</b> in an affluent Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan
            district. He defeated Representative Daniel Goldman, a
            wealthy Levi Strauss heir who had opposed the mayor in last
            year=E2=80=99s elections and had <b>close ties to the American
              Israel Public Affairs Committee</b>, the pro-Israel lobby.</f=
ont></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Claire Valdez, 36, a little-known state
            assemblywoman also recruited by Mr. Mamdani to run, ran up
            larger than expected margins for an open seat in a
            gentrifying swath of Brooklyn and Queens so far left it has
            been nicknamed the =E2=80=9CCommie Corridor.=E2=80=9D</font></p=
>
        <p><font size=3D"4">She defeated Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn boro=
ugh
            president, who had far deeper roots in the district and the
            support of the popular congresswoman, Representative Nydia
            Vel=C3=A1zquez, who is retiring; the left-leaning Working
            Families Party; and nearly every major labor union in the
            city.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">And Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s allies even won in a
            predominantly Black and Dominican district in Upper
            Manhattan and the Bronx. In perhaps the night=E2=80=99s most
            surprising victory, Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, another
            democratic socialist who entered the race as a political
            unknown, narrowly knocked off Representative Adriano
            Espaillat, the influential chairman of the Congressional
            Hispanic Caucus.</font></p>
        <div>
         =20
            <div><br>
              <div>
                <div style=3D"height:auto"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><img=
 alt=3D"Darializa Avila Chevalier holds a microphone  as others, including =
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, stand to her side." src=3D"https://static01.nyt.com/i=
mages/2026/07/23/multimedia/23met-primaries2-lcvw/23met-primaries2-lcvw-art=
icleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75&amp;auto=3Dwebp&amp;disable=3Dupscale"><u></u></=
div>
              </div>
            </div>
            <span>Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s last primary
                night appearance was at the victory party for Darializa
                Avila Chevalier, center.=C2=A0</span><span><span>Credit...<=
/span><span><span aria-hidden=3D"false">Lexi Parra/The New York Times</span=
></span></span>
        </div>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CThis is a wake-up call,=E2=80=9D said =
Letitia James, the
            state=E2=80=99s progressive attorney general, who supported Mr.
            Mamdani=E2=80=99s mayoral campaign but ended up opposed to him =
on
            Tuesday.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CObviously, there=E2=80=99s some hurt f=
eelings tonight,
            particularly in communities of color,=E2=80=9D she said, adding=
,
            =E2=80=9CWhat we have to do is sit down and work with the
            left-leaning part of the party and see if we can come to
            some sort of understanding going forward.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Where previous mayors have taken a wide berth
            around intraparty primaries, Mr. Mamdani dove in. Before he
            even clinched his own mayoral win, he began recruiting
            candidates to run for seats he felt were ripe for leftist
            wins. He headlined fund-raisers, appeared in ads and
            dispatched his top political advisers to run two of the
            campaigns.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">In the race=E2=80=99s final days, Mr. Mamdani e=
xhausted
            himself shuttling between events with Ms. Valdez and Ms.
            Avila Chevalier, who were in the closest races. Wherever the
            mayor went, large crowds seemed to materialize.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s aggressive interventions =
were not
            without collateral damage. His positions on some of the
            races put him at odds with the Working Families Party,
            prominent Black and Latino Democrats, major labor unions and
            members of the City Council, all of whom had supported his
            campaign for mayor and are now involved in his governing
            agenda.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">He infuriated Ms. Vel=C3=A1zquez, Mr. Mamdani=
=E2=80=99s first
            supporter in Congress, who believed the mayor should have
            deferred to her wishes about a successor. She came to accuse
            the D.S.A. in particular of trying to erase the
            contributions she and other progressives had made to pushing
            the city leftward for decades.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Others, including Representative Hakeem Jeffrie=
s,
            the House Democratic leader, were even more upset when Mr.
            Mamdani decided in May to endorse Ms. Avila Chevalier, a
            democratic socialist activist and Ph.D. student, and break
            with Mr. Espaillat.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Espaillat did not back Mr. Mamdani in last
            year=E2=80=99s primary, but afterward, he quickly endorsed him =
and
            brought along Latino support. Mr. Mamdani <a href=3D"https://ww=
w.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/nyregion/adriano-espaillat-darializa-avila-chevali=
er-mamdani.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">had privately assured Mr.
              Espaillat</a> at the time that he would reciprocate if he
            ever needed it.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">The mayor never explained his change of heart i=
n
            detail, but his advisers said he watched Ms. Avila
            Chevalier=E2=80=99s momentum and believed he could make a diffe=
rence
            in the race. Supporters of Mr. Espaillat were furious, and
            said they could no longer trust Mr. Mamdani=E2=80=99s word.</fo=
nt></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">The outcome on Tuesday could pose particular
            problems for Mr. Jeffries, the New Yorker in line to become
            speaker if Democrats reclaim control of the House this year.
            Ms. Valdez and Ms. Avila Chevalier have not committed to
            supporting Mr. Jeffries=E2=80=99s leadership bid and could beco=
me
            persistent thorns in his side.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Democrats aligned with Mr. Jeffries, who fought
            hard to defeat Ms. Avila Chevalier, have privately raised
            concerns about her victory in particular. They fear that
            Republicans will weaponize <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2=
026/06/14/nyregion/avila-chevalier-social-media.html" title=3D"" target=3D"=
_blank">a trove of her
              inflammatory old social media posts</a>, including saying
            that =E2=80=9Call deportations are wrong=E2=80=9D and using cru=
de language
            about Kamala Harris, against more moderate Democrats running
            in swing districts that will decide the fate of the House
            this fall.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Jeffries repeatedly sidestepped the issue
            during an interview on NY1 Tuesday night as the results came
            in. Others were less reticent to register concerns.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CRepublicans will very quickly seek to =
elevate, as
            they always do, the most radical voices in the Democratic
            Party,=E2=80=9D said Howard Wolfson, a former head of the House
            Democrats=E2=80=99 campaign arm and a top adviser to Michael R.
            Bloomberg. =E2=80=9CAnd after tonight, they will have more radi=
cal
            Democrats to choose from.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Mr. Mamdani and his allies saw it very differen=
tly.</font></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">Gustavo Gordillo, a D.S.A. co-chair in New York=
,
            said that his organization was already casting its attention
            to next year=E2=80=99s budget fight in Albany and beyond.</font=
></p>
        <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re going to start thinking =
about 2028 and what
            comes next,=E2=80=9D he said.</font></p></div></div></div>
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e
(Dobbs) "The President shall remove United States Armed Forces from
hostilities..."
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9575&utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&isFreema=
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It=E2=80=99s
safe to conclude, despite the act of Congress, nothing changes.

Greg Dobbs <https://substack.com/@gregdobbs>
Jun 24
<https://substack.com/@gregdobbs>





Well, *this* should be interesting.

Donald Trump has bashed the judiciary since his political career started.
Even more so, once it labeled him a criminal himself.
<https://substack.com/redirect/768747dc-6f64-4e8c-aae5-394bc3305b1b?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>

It=E2=80=99s his M.O. When federal judges tell him he=E2=80=99s got to do a=
 certain thing a
certain way, often he tells them to stuff it. Literally. He demeans them,
he dismisses them, he undermines the public=E2=80=99s confidence in them. D=
onald
Trump does what he wants to do and treats judicial orders with the same
contempt he treats the Constitution itself.

But as of yesterday, it=E2=80=99s not the judicial branch he will likely de=
fy, it=E2=80=99s
the legislative branch. It=E2=80=99s Congress.

Three weeks ago, with a handful of Republicans defecting to join the
Democrats, the House of Representatives approved a war powers resolution
ordering the president to withdraw U.S. forces from the war zone around
Iran, unless Congress specifically authorizes their continued presence.
Then yesterday, by a vote of 50-48, also with some Republican defectors,
the Senate did the same.
<https://substack.com/redirect/20d96a6c-ed94-41dc-b580-99fa07c90cfa?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>

The joint Senate-House resolution says this:

*=E2=80=9CThe President shall remove United States Armed Forces from hostil=
ities
within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran (or any part of the
government or military thereof)=E2=80=94*

*(1) not later than 30 days after the date on which this joint resolution
is enacted; or*

*(2) if Congress directs such removal earlier by concurrent resolution.*

So now, both houses of Congress have proclaimed, the war must end. This is
very much in keeping with what the public wants. A CBS News/YouGov poll
just last week showed an overwhelming sentiment to end the war. Especially
since for all his bluster, Donald Trump so far has gotten very little of
what he said he=E2=80=99d get.
<https://substack.com/redirect/4c35b8a0-ec23-42d6-a6d6-519a6a7ed068?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>

As Republican lame duck senator Bill Cassidy, one of the defectors, said to
reporters, =E2=80=9CRight now Iran is ending up stronger than they started,=
 and
we=E2=80=99ve achieved none of the objectives originally laid out.=E2=80=9D

Which means, after thousands of deaths and tens if not hundreds of billions
of dollars spent, it=E2=80=99s time to *get* out.

But will the president treat this congressional declaration the same way he
treats judicial decrees? Most likely, yes. Although there is no mechanism
for him to veto it, the congressional resolution does not have the force of
law and what=E2=80=99s more, there is debate about the power of Congress to=
 stop
the president. An ally, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, spoke on the floor of the Senate and left no doubt: =E2=80=9CWha=
tever
happens with this, it=E2=80=99s going to have no effect. The president isn=
=E2=80=99t going
to pay any attention to it.=E2=80=9D

It shouldn=E2=80=99t have to be said, but Trump=E2=80=99s the only one with=
 an army.
Congress doesn=E2=80=99t have one, the courts don=E2=80=99t either.

Of course the original War Powers Resolution, passed by Congress more than
fifty years ago after President Richard Nixon operated without constructive
constraints in the Vietnam War, says a president cannot wage war without
the consent of Congress.
<https://substack.com/redirect/3db11eda-f77e-41dd-881c-e4128a1435e3?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>

But Trump blew that off on Day One with Iran. In other words, he never
asked. For a while, he tried pushing the fantasy that it wasn=E2=80=99t rea=
lly a
war, just a =E2=80=9Cmilitary operation,=E2=80=9D very much in the spirit o=
f his Russian
buddy Vladimir Putin, who made =E2=80=9Cwar=E2=80=9D an illegal word in his=
 country after
his forces invaded Ukraine. It was just a =E2=80=9Cspecial military operati=
on.=E2=80=9D

Furthermore, Article I of the Constitution itself lays out the designated
powers of Congress and when it comes to war, it is clear: =E2=80=9CThe Cong=
ress
shall have Power=E2=80=A6. To declare War.=E2=80=9D Nowhere will you find a=
nything granting
that kind of power to a president.

The irony is, for Trump=E2=80=99s protestations that it hasn=E2=80=99t been=
 a full-blown
war, that=E2=80=99s the word they use for it in the Memorandum of Understan=
ding he
so publicly signed last week: =E2=80=9CWar.=E2=80=9D
<https://substack.com/redirect/e50c3dde-569e-423a-8eaa-787b7c40d872?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc>

Maybe though, it=E2=80=99s all moot. Trump knows how to count the votes, so=
 he
knows that neither Congress nor the public it represents want this war to
get worse again. Several times since it started he has talked a big game=E2=
=80=94
=E2=80=9CA whole civilization will die tonight,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=
=99re going to bring them back to
the Stone Ages where they belong.=E2=80=9D Even this past Sunday, during th=
e peace-
*ish* talks in Switzerland, he posted a threat online to the Iranians:
=E2=80=9CIran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon fr=
om
causing trouble. If they don=E2=80=99t, we=E2=80=99ll hit Iran very hard ag=
ain, just like
we did last week, only harder!!!=E2=80=9D

But he has been an empty suit. Not that it would be better if he would
follow through on his deadly threats, but if the history of the last four
months is any guide, everyone knows, including Iran, that he probably won=
=E2=80=99t.

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So it=E2=80=99s safe to conclude, despite the act of Congress, nothing chan=
ges. Not
the war, and certainly not the disobedience of Donald Trump.

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ot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;margin:0px;line-height:36px;font-size:32px"><a hre=
f=3D"https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3D265151&amp;post_id=
=3D203319575&amp;utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail-pos=
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style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration:none">(Dobbs) &quot;The Presid=
ent shall remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities...&quot;</a></=
h1><h3 style=3D"font-family:&quot;SF Pro Display&quot;,-apple-system-headli=
ne,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,H=
elvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoj=
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color:rgb(119,119,119);line-height:24px;font-size:18px">It=E2=80=99s safe t=
o conclude, despite the act of Congress, nothing changes.</h3><table width=
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emFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple C=
olor Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;tex=
t-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.2px"><a href=3D"https://substack.com=
/@gregdobbs" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:r=
gb(54,55,55);list-style:none;margin:0px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2=
px;text-decoration:none">Greg Dobbs</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td=
></tr><tr><td><table width=3D"auto" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadd=
ing=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"vertical-align:middle"><div style=3D"list=
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or:rgb(119,119,119);margin:0px;font-family:&quot;SF Compact&quot;,-apple-sy=
stem,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto=
,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Em=
oji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spaci=
ng:0.2px">Jun 24</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><=
/td><td align=3D"right"><table width=3D"auto" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0=
" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"vertical-align:middle"><a href=
=3D"https://substack.com/@gregdobbs" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" target=3D"=
_blank"><img src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PAWG!,f_auto,q_=
auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9=
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ble><table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" =
style=3D"border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1p=
x;border-bottom-style:solid;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr height=3D"16"><td he=
ight=3D"16" style=3D"font-size:0px;line-height:0">=C2=A0</td></tr><tr><td><=
table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbod=
y><tr><td><table width=3D"auto" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=
=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"vertical-align:middle"><br></td><td width=3D=
"8" style=3D"min-width:8px"></td><td style=3D"vertical-align:middle"></td><=
td width=3D"8" style=3D"min-width:8px"></td><td style=3D"vertical-align:mid=
dle"></td><td width=3D"8" style=3D"min-width:8px"></td><td style=3D"vertica=
l-align:middle"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align=3D"right"><br></td=
></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr height=3D"16"><td height=3D"16" style=
=3D"font-size:0px;line-height:0">=C2=A0</td></tr></tbody></table></div></di=
v><div style=3D"padding:32px 0px 0px;line-height:26px"><div style=3D"text-a=
lign:initial;line-height:26px;width:550px;margin-bottom:16px"><p style=3D"m=
argin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Well,=C2=A0<em>thi=
s</em>=C2=A0should be interesting.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color=
:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Donald Trump has bashed the judiciary sinc=
e his political career started. Even more so, once it labeled him a crimina=
l himself.</p><div style=3D"line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width=
=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td s=
tyle=3D"text-align:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=3D"1106" style=3D"=
text-align:center"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/768747dc-6f64-4=
e8c-aae5-394bc3305b1b?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfH=
Jv1Esns2iQXZc" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"paddi=
ng:0px;width:auto;height:auto;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-=
color:currentcolor;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin:0px"><img alt=
=3D"" src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AF_1!,w_1100,c_limit,f=
_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3=
.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F134a1744-dbc1-4347-b1a7-66298f17ebaf_110=
6x870.png" class=3D"gmail-CToWUd" style=3D"vertical-align: middle; display:=
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ium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></a></td><td style=3D=
"text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0px =
0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px"></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0=
px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">It=E2=80=99s his M.O. When fe=
deral judges tell him he=E2=80=99s got to do a certain thing a certain way,=
 often he tells them to stuff it. Literally. He demeans them, he dismisses =
them, he undermines the public=E2=80=99s confidence in them. Donald Trump d=
oes what he wants to do and treats judicial orders with the same contempt h=
e treats the Constitution itself.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:=
rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">But as of yesterday, it=E2=80=99s not the j=
udicial branch he will likely defy, it=E2=80=99s the legislative branch. It=
=E2=80=99s Congress.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55)=
;line-height:26px">Three weeks ago, with a handful of Republicans defecting=
 to join the Democrats, the House of Representatives approved a war powers =
resolution ordering the president to withdraw U.S. forces from the war zone=
 around Iran, unless Congress specifically authorizes their continued prese=
nce. Then yesterday, by a vote of 50-48, also with some Republican defector=
s, the Senate did the same.</p><div style=3D"line-height:26px;margin:32px a=
uto"><table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"=
><tbody><tr><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=
=3D"1456" style=3D"text-align:center"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redir=
ect/20d96a6c-ed94-41dc-b580-99fa07c90cfa?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjm=
mr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" target=3D"_bl=
ank" style=3D"padding:0px;width:auto;height:auto;border-width:medium;border=
-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;text-decoration:none;display:block;ma=
rgin:0px"><img alt=3D"" src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BdfG=
!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs=
tack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc489755f-189e-4e44-b19=
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n: middle; display: block; margin: 0px auto; width: 550px; max-width: 800px=
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a></td><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p s=
tyle=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px"></p><p st=
yle=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The joint =
Senate-House resolution says this:</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color=
:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px"><em>=E2=80=9CThe President shall remove Un=
ited States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Rep=
ublic of Iran (or any part of the government or military thereof)=E2=80=94<=
/em></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26p=
x"><em>(1) not later than 30 days after the date on which this joint resolu=
tion is enacted; or</em></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55=
,55);line-height:26px"><em>(2) if Congress directs such removal earlier by =
concurrent resolution.</em></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54=
,55,55);line-height:26px">So now, both houses of Congress have proclaimed, =
the war must end. This is very much in keeping with what the public wants. =
A CBS News/YouGov poll just last week showed an overwhelming sentiment to e=
nd the war. Especially since for all his bluster, Donald Trump so far has g=
otten very little of what he said he=E2=80=99d get.</p><div style=3D"line-h=
eight:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=
=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td><t=
d align=3D"left" width=3D"1210" style=3D"text-align:center"><a href=3D"http=
s://substack.com/redirect/4c35b8a0-ec23-42d6-a6d6-519a6a7ed068?j=3DeyJ1Ijoi=
MzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc" rel=3D"noreferrer n=
oopener" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"padding:0px;width:auto;height:auto;bord=
er-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;text-decoration=
:none;display:block;margin:0px"><img alt=3D"" src=3D"https://substackcdn.co=
m/image/fetch/$s_!nqSm!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st=
eep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F=
82a28a5b-5827-4728-8ade-8b4f4b21287b_1210x714.png" class=3D"gmail-CToWUd" s=
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0px; max-width: 800px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-col=
or: currentcolor;"></a></td><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td></tr></tbo=
dy></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-h=
eight:26px"></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-he=
ight:26px">As Republican lame duck senator Bill Cassidy, one of the defecto=
rs, said to reporters, =E2=80=9CRight now Iran is ending up stronger than t=
hey started, and we=E2=80=99ve achieved none of the objectives originally l=
aid out.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);li=
ne-height:26px">Which means, after thousands of deaths and tens if not hund=
reds of billions of dollars spent, it=E2=80=99s time to=C2=A0<em>get</em>=
=C2=A0out.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-heig=
ht:26px">But will the president treat this congressional declaration the sa=
me way he treats judicial decrees? Most likely, yes. Although there is no m=
echanism for him to veto it, the congressional resolution does not have the=
 force of law and what=E2=80=99s more, there is debate about the power of C=
ongress to stop the president. An ally, the chair of the Senate Foreign Rel=
ations Committee, spoke on the floor of the Senate and left no doubt: =E2=
=80=9CWhatever happens with this, it=E2=80=99s going to have no effect. The=
 president isn=E2=80=99t going to pay any attention to it.=E2=80=9D</p><p s=
tyle=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">It should=
n=E2=80=99t have to be said, but Trump=E2=80=99s the only one with an army.=
 Congress doesn=E2=80=99t have one, the courts don=E2=80=99t either.</p><p =
style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Of cours=
e the original War Powers Resolution, passed by Congress more than fifty ye=
ars ago after President Richard Nixon operated without constructive constra=
ints in the Vietnam War, says a president cannot wage war without the conse=
nt of Congress.</p><div style=3D"line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table =
width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr>=
<td style=3D"text-align:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=3D"574" style=
=3D"text-align:center"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/3db11eda-f7=
7e-41dd-881c-e4128a1435e3?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp=
_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"p=
adding:0px;width:auto;height:auto;border-width:medium;border-style:none;bor=
der-color:currentcolor;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin:0px"><img =
alt=3D"" src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7as3!,w_1100,c_limi=
t,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media=
.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa588c73-23ca-4bbc-a53c-e5b76df60706_=
574x842.png" class=3D"gmail-CToWUd" style=3D"vertical-align: middle; displa=
y: block; margin: 0px auto; width: 550px; max-width: 574px; border-width: m=
edium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></a></td><td style=
=3D"text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0=
px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px"></p><p style=3D"margin:0p=
x 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">But Trump blew that off on=
 Day One with Iran. In other words, he never asked. For a while, he tried p=
ushing the fantasy that it wasn=E2=80=99t really a war, just a =E2=80=9Cmil=
itary operation,=E2=80=9D very much in the spirit of his Russian buddy Vlad=
imir Putin, who made =E2=80=9Cwar=E2=80=9D an illegal word in his country a=
fter his forces invaded Ukraine. It was just a =E2=80=9Cspecial military op=
eration.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);li=
ne-height:26px">Furthermore, Article I of the Constitution itself lays out =
the designated powers of Congress and when it comes to war, it is clear: =
=E2=80=9CThe Congress shall have Power=E2=80=A6. To declare War.=E2=80=9D N=
owhere will you find anything granting that kind of power to a president.</=
p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The=
 irony is, for Trump=E2=80=99s protestations that it hasn=E2=80=99t been a =
full-blown war, that=E2=80=99s the word they use for it in the Memorandum o=
f Understanding he so publicly signed last week: =E2=80=9CWar.=E2=80=9D</p>=
<div style=3D"line-height:26px;margin:32px auto"><table width=3D"100%" bord=
er=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"text-a=
lign:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=3D"1422" style=3D"text-align:cen=
ter"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/e50c3dde-569e-423a-8eaa-787b7=
c40d872?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMzkwYXoifQ.63a58n3zMjmmr0mkOuevC7O6Kp_vfHJv1Esns2iQXZc"=
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uto;height:auto;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentc=
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tps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AjZL!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:go=
od,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%=
2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf40007f-a416-4247-8372-181363959ac6_1422x804.png" clas=
s=3D"gmail-CToWUd" style=3D"vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin:=
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le: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></a></td><td style=3D"text-align:cen=
ter"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:=
rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px"></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:r=
gb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Maybe though, it=E2=80=99s all moot. Trump k=
nows how to count the votes, so he knows that neither Congress nor the publ=
ic it represents want this war to get worse again. Several times since it s=
tarted he has talked a big game=E2=80=94 =E2=80=9CA whole civilization will=
 die tonight,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re going to bring them back to t=
he Stone Ages where they belong.=E2=80=9D Even this past Sunday, during the=
 peace-<em>ish</em>=C2=A0talks in Switzerland, he posted a threat online to=
 the Iranians: =E2=80=9CIran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIE=
S in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don=E2=80=99t, we=E2=80=99ll hit=
 Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!=E2=80=9D<=
/p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Bu=
t he has been an empty suit. Not that it would be better if he would follow=
 through on his deadly threats, but if the history of the last four months =
is any guide, everyone knows, including Iran, that he probably won=E2=80=99=
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*https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/top-russian-diplomat-says-mosc=
ow-to-not-agree-to-ceasefire-in-ukraine-for-sake-of-peace-talks/3976751
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ow-to-not-agree-to-ceasefire-in-ukraine-for-sake-of-peace-talks/3976751>*

6/24/26

*Top Russian diplomat says Moscow to not agree to ceasefire in Ukraine for
sake of peace talks*Russia =E2=80=98won't waste time on temporary, interim
solutions, much less accept ultimatums dictated by someone else,=E2=80=99 s=
ays
Lavrov
[image: Content media]

*Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that his country
will not agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine for the sake of holding peace
negotiations.*

*=E2=80=9CWe're always ready, but, I repeat, when we sit down at the negoti=
ating
table, if there are any coherent ideas, proposals, and adequate people on
the other side, we won't take anyone's word for it,=E2=80=9D Lavrov said at=
 the
Primakov Readings forum in the Russian capital Moscow.*

*Lavrov argued Moscow previously agreed to this step following peace
negotiations in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul in 2022, defining the issue
of Ukraine as a matter of fundamental importance for the Russian side.*

*=E2=80=9CAnd we certainly won't settle for temporary, interim solutions, m=
uch less
accept ultimatums dictated by someone else,=E2=80=9D Lavrov said.*

*Lavrov confirmed that Russia had contacts with the office of European
Council President Antonio Costa, but noted Moscow=E2=80=99s readiness to en=
gage
with EU representatives and hear their views if the 27-member bloc adopts a
constructive position.*

*=E2=80=9CBut we simply no longer have the right to rely =E2=80=93 in any p=
art of our
foreign policy, from the point of view of achieving development goals and
strengthening Russia=E2=80=99s international position =E2=80=93 in any way =
on Europe=E2=80=99s
promises or expectations,=E2=80=9D Lavrov further said.*

*He went on to reaffirm Russia=E2=80=99s readiness for negotiations on Ukra=
ine, but
added Moscow is nonetheless on guard to avoid being =E2=80=9Cdeceived.=E2=
=80=9D*

*Lavrov further reaffirmed Moscow=E2=80=99s commitment to the understanding=
s
reached at the summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US
President Donald Trump in Alaska in August last year.*

*He, however, argued that the "ball is not on our side of the field," while
stating Moscow seeks to understand whether the US position has changed
following the G7 summit in France.*

*Commenting about Moscow=E2=80=99s membership in the Organization for Secur=
ity and
Cooperation in Europe, Lavrov described the organization as =E2=80=9Chalf-d=
ead=E2=80=9D and
that while he would personally withdraw from it, this is a decision to be
made by the Russian president.*

*He also stated that Russia is ready to facilitate the conclusion of a
comprehensive long-term deal between Washington and Tehran if its services
are needed.*

*"We certainly hope that the restoration of free navigation through the
Strait of Hormuz will benefit the energy and food security of countries in
the Global South.*

*"And the stabilization of the military and political situation in the
Persian Gulf could well become the pretext for launching a broad dialogue
on a new security architecture and cooperation in this strategic region of
the Middle East as a whole," he expressed.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"=
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/top-russian-diplomat-says-mosco=
w-to-not-agree-to-ceasefire-in-ukraine-for-sake-of-peace-talks/3976751" tar=
get=3D"_blank">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/top-russian-dipl=
omat-says-moscow-to-not-agree-to-ceasefire-in-ukraine-for-sake-of-peace-tal=
ks/3976751</a><br></font></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>6/24/26</div>=
<div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 style=
=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>Top Russia=
n diplomat says Moscow to not agree to ceasefire in Ukraine for sake of pea=
ce talks</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"line-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%">=
<font size=3D"2" face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000">Russia =E2=80=98=
won&#39;t waste time on temporary, interim solutions, much less accept ulti=
matums dictated by someone else,=E2=80=99 says Lavrov</font></h2><div style=
=3D"max-width:100%;margin-bottom:1.15em;line-height:1.5em"><img src=3D"http=
s://web-cdnprod.aa.com.tr/uploads/Contents/2026/06/24/thumbs_b_c_83cd1a1f09=
923bc37e5f9edb56ff807e.jpg" alt=3D"Content media" style=3D"margin:auto 0px =
auto auto;display:block;clear:both" width=3D"412" height=3D"232"></div><p s=
tyle=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif=
">Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that his country=
 will not agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine for the sake of holding peace neg=
otiations.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CWe&#39;re always ready, but, I repe=
at, when we sit down at the negotiating table, if there are any coherent id=
eas, proposals, and adequate people on the other side, we won&#39;t take an=
yone&#39;s word for it,=E2=80=9D Lavrov said at the Primakov Readings forum=
 in the Russian capital Moscow.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Lavrov argued Moscow pr=
eviously agreed to this step following peace negotiations in the Turkish me=
tropolis Istanbul in 2022, defining the issue of Ukraine as a matter of fun=
damental importance for the Russian side.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CAnd =
we certainly won&#39;t settle for temporary, interim solutions, much less a=
ccept ultimatums dictated by someone else,=E2=80=9D Lavrov said.</font></b>=
</p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgi=
a, serif">Lavrov confirmed that Russia had contacts with the office of Euro=
pean Council President Antonio Costa, but noted Moscow=E2=80=99s readiness =
to engage with EU representatives and hear their views if the 27-member blo=
c adopts a constructive position.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CBut we simpl=
y no longer have the right to rely =E2=80=93 in any part of our foreign pol=
icy, from the point of view of achieving development goals and strengthenin=
g Russia=E2=80=99s international position =E2=80=93 in any way on Europe=E2=
=80=99s promises or expectations,=E2=80=9D Lavrov further said.</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif">He went on to reaffirm Russia=E2=80=99s readiness for negotiations=
 on Ukraine, but added Moscow is nonetheless on guard to avoid being =E2=80=
=9Cdeceived.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27=
,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Lavrov further reaffirmed Moscow=
=E2=80=99s commitment to the understandings reached at the summit between R=
ussian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska in =
August last year.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,=
27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">He, however, argued that the &quot;ba=
ll is not on our side of the field,&quot; while stating Moscow seeks to und=
erstand whether the US position has changed following the G7 summit in Fran=
ce.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">Commenting about Moscow=E2=80=99s membership in the=
 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Lavrov described the =
organization as =E2=80=9Chalf-dead=E2=80=9D and that while he would persona=
lly withdraw from it, this is a decision to be made by the Russian presiden=
t.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font f=
ace=3D"georgia, serif">He also stated that Russia is ready to facilitate th=
e conclusion of a comprehensive long-term deal between Washington and Tehra=
n if its services are needed.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;colo=
r:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">&quot;We certainly hope t=
hat the restoration of free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz will be=
nefit the energy and food security of countries in the Global South.</font>=
</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">&quot;And the stabilization of the military and political sit=
uation in the Persian Gulf could well become the pretext for launching a br=
oad dialogue on a new security architecture and cooperation in this strateg=
ic region of the Middle East as a whole,&quot; he expressed.</font></b></p>=
</div></div>
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China Is Luring the World to the Yuan=E2=80=94and Hobbling Western Sanction=
s
Iran and Russia have used the currency to carry out oil sales and other
trade, evading controls on dollar transactions
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By
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   China=E2=80=99s yuan-based financial architecture is enabling countries =
to evade
   U.S. sanctions, weakening Washington=E2=80=99s ability to police global
business.View
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The White House has entered talks with Iran
<https://www.wsj.com/topics/place/iran> over a new nuclear deal, relying on
a traditional strength: the promise of sanctions relief and access to some
of roughly $100 billion in frozen assets.

Yet, that leverage is waning. Tehran has blunted the U.S. sanctions
campaign in recent years by successfully using China=E2=80=99s financial
architecture=E2=80=94built on the yuan=E2=80=94that operates beyond Washing=
ton=E2=80=99s reach.

The shift was evident in late April when the U.S. escalated its =E2=80=9CEc=
onomic
Fury=E2=80=9D campaign against Iran, sanctioning a major Chinese refinery i=
t said
bought billions of dollars=E2=80=99 worth of Iranian oil
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/chinas-teapot-refiners-targeted-by-u=
-s-offer-financial-lifeline-to-iran-d3e0604f?mod=3Darticle_inline>.
The refiner, Hengli Petrochemical
<https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/CN/XSHG/600346>, said its supplier
had guaranteed the oil wasn=E2=80=99t Iranian.

But it also put the U.S. on notice. Future oil purchases
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-china-helped-iran-cushion-the-bl=
ow-of-sanctions-and-fund-its-war-machine-6fa2847d?mod=3Darticle_inline>,
Hengli said, would be settled in yuan instead of U.S. dollars, the energy
market=E2=80=99s main currency=E2=80=94making it harder for outsiders to tr=
ack the flows.

It was the latest sign of a troubling new development for Washington. More
of the world=E2=80=99s illicit activity to evade sanctions is being handled=
 in
yuan, as China builds an alternative financial system aimed at weakening
Washington=E2=80=99s power to dictate world affairs.
[image: Aerial view of Hengli Group petrochemical industrial park on
Changxing Island, Dalian, with a clear blue sea, long piers, and industrial
structures.]A petrochemical industrial park of Hengli Group in northeastern
China in 2024. Xinhua/Getty Images

The dominance of the U.S. dollar, currently used in roughly 80% of
international trade finance, has historically given Washington a big
advantage in policing global business. Most international transactions
denominated in U.S. dollars must be settled by American banks, giving
Washington the ability to monitor them=E2=80=94and cut off users=E2=80=99 d=
ollars if
necessary, crippling their operations.

But when U.S. adversaries use yuan to run their businesses, the
transactions don=E2=80=99t enter the U.S.-led banking system, neutering
Washington=E2=80=99s powers.

The U.S. has cleared the way for Iran to resume its oil sales
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/vance-says-iran-agreed-to-allow-nucl=
ear-inspectors-back-in-209db17c?mod=3Darticle_inline>,
and even be paid in dollars, during the negotiation period. But even under
U.S. sanctions meant to block the sales, Iran earned up to $43 billion in
oil revenue
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranian-oil-shadow-fleet-black-marke=
t-3dc7fb6c?mod=3Darticle_inline>
in
2024, before accounting for unspecified discounts, according to the U.S.
Energy Information Administration. The discounts vary but in 2025 averaged
about 13%, according to U.S. lawmakers.

Most of the sales were paid for in yuan, according to the U.S. Treasury.

Tehran uses the money to buy Chinese car parts, solar panels and other
goods and services, as well as dual-use inputs
<https://www.wsj.com/world/china-is-still-supplying-drone-factories-in-iran=
-russia-despite-u-s-sanctions-1e6820ca?mod=3Darticle_inline>=E2=80=94materi=
als
purportedly for civilian use that could also be used for weapons=E2=80=94al=
l beyond
U.S. jurisdiction.

Boats seeking safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict
were told to pay Tehran in yuan or cryptocurrencies, which are also hard
for Washington to control
<https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/iran-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-d8c0a09=
e?mod=3Darticle_inline>.
Iranian and Chinese partners have set up secretive intermediaries and front
companies in Hong Kong
<https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-hong-kong-helps-the-flow-of-irans-hidd=
en-billions-cfffb913?mod=3Darticle_inline>
and
elsewhere to help facilitate more trade in yuan, Treasury officials say.

Some of the transactions are settled on China=E2=80=99s Cross-Border Interb=
ank
Payment System, or CIPS, a yuan-denominated alternative to the Swift
messaging network. It was set up by China in 2015 and can=E2=80=99t easily =
be
monitored by the U.S.

Although still small, volume on the network jumped after the U.S.-Iran
conflict started. It has averaged roughly 790 billion yuan, or around $115
billion, a day in the three months since the end of February, according to
the Atlantic Council think tank, compared with a daily average of 680
billion yuan, or around $100 billion, last year.

The Belgium-based Swift messaging network is immensely larger, facilitating
an estimated more than $5 trillion a day, including some messages that move
across CIPS. But the fast expansion of CIPS activity means it is becoming a
more-global cross-border payments system, the Atlantic Council says.

A similar pattern played out with Russia
<https://www.wsj.com/topics/place/russia> when its war in Ukraine started
in February 2022. After the U.S. tightened sanctions, more Russian oil
exports and other trade with China were settled in yuan. Total daily
transactions on CIPS have doubled and the number of financial institutions
operating on the platform has more than doubled from the beginning of the
war to mid-2025, according to Chinese central bank data and CIPS.

Today, Russian officials say more than 90% of trade between Russia and
China is settled in yuan and Russian rubles. A total prewar figure couldn=
=E2=80=99t
be determined, but for comparison, the yuan was used in 2% of Russian trade
in February 2022, according to the Centre for Eastern Studies, a Polish
think tank.

Overall, the yuan=E2=80=99s share of global trade finance tripled over the =
past
five years to 6% in April, according to data from Swift. It has been the
second most-used currency in such financing for most of this year, ahead of
the euro and behind the dollar.

About half of China=E2=80=99s cross-border transactions are now denominated=
 in its
own currency, compared with almost nothing 15 years ago, according to
Chinese central bank data.

China also is rapidly expanding a program launched in 2021 called mBridge,
a platform that uses digital versions of the yuan and other currencies to
execute cross-border payments that are settled between central banks
without the money passing through U.S. financial institutions.

All the yuan-based systems =E2=80=9Cmake it easier to work around U.S. sanc=
tions,=E2=80=9D
said Josh Lipsky, a former International Monetary Fund staffer now at the
Atlantic Council. =E2=80=9CThey cloud the U.S. intelligence community=E2=80=
=99s ability to
see financial flows.=E2=80=9D

China=E2=80=99s Foreign Ministry in a statement said it was =E2=80=9Cunawar=
e of the
situation=E2=80=9D regarding oil trade between China and Iran. The two coun=
tries=E2=80=99
relations =E2=80=9Chave always been conducted within the framework of inter=
national
law,=E2=80=9D it said. China cooperates with countries around the world, in=
cluding
Russia, based on the =E2=80=9Cprinciples of equality and mutual benefit,=E2=
=80=9D it added.

China has no intention of fully replacing the dollar with the yuan
worldwide. A more dramatic increase in global yuan adoption would require
Beijing to make painful changes to its economy, such as giving up capital
controls and allowing its currency to freely float, which could spark
capital flight and destabilize the country.

Beijing=E2=80=99s goal instead is to build up specific lanes of trade that =
work
outside the U.S. dollar. The push is driven in part by Beijing=E2=80=99s de=
sire to
undermine U.S. authority and assist its allies, former Treasury officials
say. China says it rejects sanctions imposed by the U.S.

Beijing also hopes to insulate China from the type of economic assault that
the U.S. and other Western nations have launched on Iran and Russia, and
would also likely unleash if Beijing ever made a move on Taiwan.
[image: Two oil tankers performing a ship-to-ship transfer of Iranian oil
in international waters off Malaysia.]Two tankers made a transfer of
Iranian oil off the Malaysian coast last year. United Against Nuclear
Iran/AP

Global finance is evolving into a system where =E2=80=9Ca few sovereign cur=
rencies
coexist and compete,=E2=80=9D said China=E2=80=99s central bank chief, Pan =
Gongsheng, in a
speech last summer. Change from a dollar-centered world is required,
because =E2=80=9Cin times of geopolitical tensions, national security conce=
rns, or
even wars, the global dominant currency tends to be instrumentalized or
weaponized,=E2=80=9D he said.

The U.S. is aware of the hole opening in its global sanctions regime. Since
the war in Iran began, Treasury officials stepped up efforts to curtail
Iranian oil sales to China and the money flowing through the Chinese
financial system, including by issuing new sanctions on Hengli and other
Chinese refiners. It also threatened penalties on Chinese banks servicing
companies that are fronts for Iranian interests.

Sanctions still give the U.S. leverage over Tehran. The measures have
increased the cost of selling Iranian oil and disrupted the regime=E2=80=99=
s access
to those revenues. Iran=E2=80=99s economy has suffered under U.S. sanctions=
, and a
long-term deal could free up billions in much-needed frozen assets for the
Iranian regime.

The nuclear-deal talks have already proved bumpy, and the outcome is
uncertain. Iran =E2=80=9Chas the ability to play for time, to obfuscate, to=
 make
trouble,=E2=80=9D said Steve Yates, a former White House national security
official. But, =E2=80=9Cit has been profoundly degraded militarily, it has =
been
profoundly degraded economically.=E2=80=9D
Iran-China pact

China began taking steps to use the yuan for more international financial
transactions after the 2008 global financial crisis.

China=E2=80=99s yearslong trade surplus meant it had accumulated some $2 tr=
illion
in foreign reserves, much of it in U.S. dollars. Beijing leaders were
increasingly concerned that China=E2=80=99s savings were at the whim of the=
 U.S.
government and Federal Reserve, whose decisions could weaken the value of
China=E2=80=99s holdings or, in a crisis, cut the country off from dollars =
more
broadly.

Beijing began using its excess dollars to make loans in the developing
world, boosting its clout. It then began offering yuan-denominated swap
lines via its central bank to indebted countries, effectively making China
a lender of last resort to poorer nations.

Then, Beijing introduced CIPS in 2015 to help internationalize the yuan.
Three years later, it launched yuan-denominated oil contracts traded in
Shanghai. That allowed China to settle oil it buys in yuan, rather than
dollars.

China also successfully began encouraging global firms, including U.S.
banks, to issue bonds in its currency.

China=E2=80=99s yuan efforts were still young when the first Trump administ=
ration
in 2018 launched a campaign to cut Iranian oil exports to zero and force
Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program and its support for militias
across the Middle East, such as Hezbollah.

Iran=E2=80=99s sales collapsed as countries, fearful of U.S. penalties that=
 could
curtail their dollar access, stopped buying. Tehran turned to Beijing.

The two sides signed a 25-year strategic pact in March 2021 to deepen
economic and security ties. A draft published in Iranian media noted that
Iran would trade oil for Chinese investments in ports, railroads and other
infrastructure. It described the partnership as a bulwark =E2=80=9Cagainst =
illegal
pressures from third parties,=E2=80=9D a reference to Washington.

Still, Beijing was wary that buying Iranian oil exposed Chinese companies
to the risk of being banned from the U.S.-dollar-led financial system. Iran
worked with customers in China to set up a clandestine system for oil
purchases, Treasury officials say, giving Beijing plausible deniability
about its purchases of sanctioned oil.

Iran=E2=80=99s military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, s=
et up
covert trading units, which in turn established hundreds of shell companies
to work with middlemen to sell to Chinese refiners and disguise the origin
of the crude. The effort included the expansion of a shadow fleet of
tankers to move sanctioned oil between Iran and China in ways that disguise
the oil=E2=80=99s origin, such as by switching off the ships=E2=80=99 locat=
ion devices.

Although Iran priced its oil sales in dollars, Treasury officials say the
transactions with Chinese buyers were mostly settled in yuan. By the end of
2022, China had become Tehran=E2=80=99s financial lifeline, buying more tha=
n 90% of
its crude, according to U.S. lawmakers.

China=E2=80=99s biggest state-owned oil majors steered clear of the trade b=
ecause
of the risk of international sanctions, but private companies such as
Hengli, which runs a massive refinery in northeastern China, became major
customers, U.S. officials say.
System to move yuan

A new nuclear deal could allow Iran to re-enter the global financial
system, but Tehran had already figured out a way to use its yuan earnings
under sanctions.

Instead of transferring yuan payments to Iran, Chinese oil buyers would
park the money with an entity known as Chuxin
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-china-secretly-pays-iran-for-oil=
-and-avoids-u-s-sanctions-b6f1b71e?mod=3Darticle_inline>,
The Wall Street Journal has previously reported. Chuxin would then deliver
the funds to Chinese contractors that perform engineering work in Iran on
projects such as airports and refineries.

Another way involved moving yuan-denominated payments from Chinese refiners
through a special-purpose-vehicle to Chinese exporters, who then transport
goods such as automotive parts to Iran, current and former Western
officials say. Two little-known trading companies representing Chinese and
Iranian backers managed the special-purpose vehicle=E2=80=99s account balan=
ce, the
officials said.

The nations have also experimented with direct barter. In 2021, the Chinese
city of Ningbo successfully traded $2 million worth of Chinese car parts
for Iranian pistachios, bypassing the Swift network, according to Chinese
media.
[image: Vessels sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.]Vessels in the Strait
of Hormuz in May. Reuters

Some Iranian oil sales still involve dollars. Iran has established a
network of exchange houses and quasi banks, known as rahbars, that control
front companies in Hong Kong, the U.A.E. and Turkey, according to Treasury
officials. These companies set up accounts at Chinese banks to pay for
goods in China and also to convert oil payments from yuan into dollars and
euros, which Iran can use around the world, Treasury and other officials
say.

Typically, the money moves through small Chinese financial institutions.
That helps shield China=E2=80=99s larger banks, which are more deeply enmes=
hed in
the global financial system, from any penalties if the transactions raise
red flags.

Still, the amount involving dollars is small compared with the overall
Iran-China oil trade. Treasury says that front companies linked to Iran
moved nearly $4 billion, or around 10% of Iran=E2=80=99s estimated 2024 oil=
 sales,
through the U.S. financial system in 2024 by using Chinese bank accounts in
Hong Kong.

=E2=80=9CThe bulk of this money is just staying in China,=E2=80=9D said Ker=
ri Bitsoff, a
former Treasury official.
Rolling out mBridge

The yuan=E2=80=99s importance was underscored after the war in Iran began. =
In
March, the containership Newvoyager, which is Chinese owned, paid a $2
million fee to Tehran in yuan to ensure safe transit through the Strait of
Hormuz, according to people involved in the deal.

Other ships also paid fees in yuan, though it is unclear how they settled
the funds, the people said.

Early in the conflict, brokers and shipowners said crews had to lower cash
in boxes from the deck to the IRGC when they crossed near Larak Island in
the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. blockade, imposed in mid-April, mostly halted similar traffic. The
blockade was lifted last week as part of the U.S.-Iran negotiations.

In the U.A.E., barrages of drone and missile attacks from Iran unsettled
the country=E2=80=99s finances. The majority of the population is foreign b=
orn, and
the conflict risks residents and investors leaving the country, converting
their Emirati dirhams into dollars and reducing the dollar reserves of the
central bank. The conflict also has curtailed the Gulf state=E2=80=99s
dollar-denominated oil exports, leaving fewer dollars coming in.

Emirati officials told U.S. officials
<https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-asks-u-s-for-a-wartime-financi=
al-lifeline-3f9ea3a0?mod=3Darticle_inline>
that
if the oil-rich Gulf state runs short of dollars, it may be forced to use
Chinese yuan for oil sales and other transactions, the Journal has
previously reported. That would deepen an already growing economic
relationship between Abu Dhabi and Beijing.
[image: Residents watch black smoke and flames rising from a burning
warehouse in Sharjah City, UAE.]Flames after an Iranian airstrike in an
industrial area in Sharjah City, U.A.E., in March. Altaf Qadri/AP

The U.A.E. is also a central player in China=E2=80=99s mBridge platform. La=
unched
in 2021, mBridge began as a collaboration involving the Switzerland-based
Bank for International Settlements, China, the U.A.E., Thailand and Hong
Kong. Saudi Arabia, China=E2=80=99s biggest oil-trading partner, later join=
ed. The
system employs some elements of cryptocurrencies but is controlled by
governments.

The platform, which uses blockchain technology for commercial banks to
transfer digital versions of the yuan and other currencies for their
customers, was initially designed as a way of settling international
transactions instantly, which would be faster than the current Swift-based
system. Rather than having banks settle payments between two companies or
individuals, the central banks of the two countries settle the transaction
using blockchain technology.

The BIS eventually pulled out, after Russia discussed a potential =E2=80=9C=
Brics
Bridge=E2=80=9D version of the mBridge technology. The entity, which wasn=
=E2=80=99t
created, would have incorporated the so-called Brics countries of Brazil,
Russia, India and China, and be immune to Western sanctions, though BIS
said its withdrawal wasn=E2=80=99t due to political considerations.

In a ceremony flying the flags of China and the U.A.E. at an Abu Dhabi
palace in November, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the vice president
of the Gulf state, which is a major U.S. defense partner, initiated the
first ever government-to-government payment to Beijing on the platform.

To further promote its use, Beijing took a significant step in January by
allowing digital yuan held in Chinese banks to earn interest, like regular
yuan. This enables Chinese trading partners to be paid for goods in digital
yuan, and then earn interest on that digital currency, mirroring how
reserves of U.S. dollars earn interest as U.S. Treasurys.

The digital yuan constituted 95% of the 4,000 cross-border payments on
mBridge as of November, according to research published in March by the
Atlantic Council.

Copyright =C2=A92026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Austin Ramzy
<https://www.wsj.com/news/author/austin-ramzy?mod=3DWSJ_article_author> is =
a
Hong Kong-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering China=E2=80=
=99s
global reach, examining how the country=E2=80=99s economic, diplomatic and =
military
strength interacts with the rest of the world. He was previously a Hong
Kong reporter at The New York Times, covering the city and also regional
and breaking news. He was part of a team that was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist
for its work examining Beijing=E2=80=99s repression in the Xinjiang region.

In 2016 and 2017, Austin was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of
Michigan, where he researched the politics of Myanmar and how automation
will change the future of work.

Previously, Austin was a Beijing correspondent and a Hong Kong reporter for
Time magazine and Time Asia. He started in journalism as a reporter at two
newspapers in Washington State, The Marysville Globe and The Peninsula
Daily News.
Follow
<austin.ramzy@wsj.com> <https://www.x.com/austinramzy>

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<https://www.wsj.com/news/author/costas-paris?mod=3DWSJ_article_author> is =
a
senior reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering global shipping, trade
and supply chains, based in New York. A 20-year veteran with Dow Jones,
Costas worked in Thailand as Asia=E2=80=99s features editor, in Singapore a=
s
Southeast Asia bureau chief and in London and Athens covering the European
Union and the International Monetary Fund.

He previously worked for Reuters, covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Costas won a William R. Clabby award in 2011 for breaking news on Singapore
and the Greek debt crisis, the Seahorse Freight Association award in 2022
for his coverage of global supply chains, and the Loeb award in 2023 for an
investigation on how Russia stole and exported Ukrainian grain.
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Rory Jones
<https://www.wsj.com/news/author/rory-jones?mod=3DWSJ_article_author> is a
reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Singapore, where he covers how
money flows through Asia, who benefits and why. He likes to write stories
with =E2=80=98Aha=E2=80=99 ideas, colorful characters and I-can=E2=80=99t-s=
top-reading
narratives. He was previously based in Dubai and spent more than a decade
covering the Middle East for the Journal. His work connected the Middle
East=E2=80=99s thorny geopolitics with global business and financial market=
s. He
profiled the region=E2=80=99s leaders, wrote about Saudi Arabia=E2=80=99s
once-in-a-generation transformation, and showed how Gulf states were using
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s=3D"gmail-css-czt13m" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div class=3D"gmail-=
css-1y1odwv" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div aria-hidden=
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gb(34,34,34);margin-right:8px"></div><p class=3D"gmail-css-rarnh9" style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,=
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ch:normal;padding:0.5px 0px"><span class=3D"gmail-css-1elmi0c" style=3D"box=
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"box-sizing:border-box;width:652.4px;overflow:hidden;display:-webkit-box;te=
xt-overflow:ellipsis">China=E2=80=99s yuan-based financial architecture is =
enabling countries to evade U.S. sanctions, weakening Washington=E2=80=99s =
ability to police global business.</span><a class=3D"gmail-css-1k43ryz" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;text-decoration:underline;font-w=
eight:bold">View more</a></span></p></div></li></ul></div></div><p class=3D=
"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Geor=
gia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font=
-size:18px">The White House has entered talks with=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://=
www.wsj.com/topics/place/iran" target=3D"_blank" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-cs=
s-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color=
:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">=
Iran</a>=C2=A0over a new nuclear deal, relying on a traditional strength: t=
he promise of sanctions relief and access to some of roughly $100 billion i=
n frozen assets.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-Style=
dNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,3=
4,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:no=
rmal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Yet, that leverage is waning. Te=
hran has blunted the U.S. sanctions campaign in recent years by successfull=
y using China=E2=80=99s financial architecture=E2=80=94built on the yuan=E2=
=80=94that operates beyond Washington=E2=80=99s reach.</p><p class=3D"e13wj=
o0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,se=
rif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:=
18px">The shift was evident in late April when the U.S. escalated its =E2=
=80=9CEconomic Fury=E2=80=9D campaign against Iran, sanctioning a major Chi=
nese refinery=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/chinas-=
teapot-refiners-targeted-by-u-s-offer-financial-lifeline-to-iran-d3e0604f?m=
od=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css=
-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color:=
rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">i=
t said bought billions of dollars=E2=80=99 worth of Iranian oil</a>. The re=
finer,=C2=A0<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:unset"><a href=3D"=
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/CN/XSHG/600346" target=3D"_blank" cl=
ass=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1=
px solid rgb(34,34,34)">Hengli Petrochemical</a></span>, said its supplier =
had guaranteed the oil wasn=E2=80=99t Iranian.</p><div class=3D"gmail-paywa=
ll gmail-css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box"><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNews=
KitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34)=
;font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;=
word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">But it also put the U.S. on notice. F=
uture=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-china-helpe=
d-iran-cushion-the-blow-of-sanctions-and-fund-its-war-machine-6fa2847d?mod=
=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i=
0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color:rg=
b(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">oil=
 purchases</a>, Hengli said, would be settled in yuan instead of U.S. dolla=
rs, the energy market=E2=80=99s main currency=E2=80=94making it harder for =
outsiders to track the flows.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-=
1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;c=
olor:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;fo=
nt-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">It was the latest s=
ign of a troubling new development for Washington. More of the world=E2=80=
=99s illicit activity to evade sanctions is being handled in yuan, as China=
 builds an alternative financial system aimed at weakening Washington=E2=80=
=99s power to dictate world affairs.</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-layout gm=
ail-css-fb2dui-Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;back=
ground-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background=
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th:700px;margin:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both"><span class=3D"gmail-css-u31=
4cv" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:block;padding-top:0px;height:au=
to;width:700px;border-radius:0px"><img alt=3D"Aerial view of Hengli Group p=
etrochemical industrial park on Changxing Island, Dalian, with a clear blue=
 sea, long piers, and industrial structures." width=3D"700" height=3D"394" =
src=3D"https://images.wsj.net/im-12940852?width=3D700&amp;height=3D394" cla=
ss=3D"gmail-css-1hzqsjo" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; displ=
ay: block; border-radius: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; max-width: 100%; wid=
th: 700px; height: auto;"></span><span class=3D"e1m33gv80 gmail-css-426zcb-=
CaptionSpan e1m33gv81" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;line-h=
eight:1.42857;margin-bottom:4px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Retina,Aria=
l,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal">A petrochemi=
cal industrial park of Hengli Group in northeastern China in 2024.=C2=A0</s=
pan><span class=3D"gmail-css-7jz429-Credit eq0esvu0" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.42857;text-transform:up=
percase;color:rgb(111,111,111);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-seri=
f;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal">Xinhua/Getty Images</span></div><=
p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exc=
hange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break=
-word;font-size:18px">The dominance of the U.S. dollar, currently used in r=
oughly 80% of international trade finance, has historically given Washingto=
n a big advantage in policing global business. Most international transacti=
ons denominated in U.S. dollars must be settled by American banks, giving W=
ashington the ability to monitor them=E2=80=94and cut off users=E2=80=99 do=
llars if necessary, crippling their operations.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo=
0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing=
:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,ser=
if;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:1=
8px">But when U.S. adversaries use yuan to run their businesses, the transa=
ctions don=E2=80=99t enter the U.S.-led banking system, neutering Washingto=
n=E2=80=99s powers.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzo=
yz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color=
:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-s=
tretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">The U.S. has cleared th=
e way for=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/vance-says-=
iran-agreed-to-allow-nuclear-inspectors-back-in-209db17c?mod=3Darticle_inli=
ne" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-Overrided=
Link" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);tex=
t-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">Iran to resume its=
 oil sales</a>, and even be paid in dollars, during the negotiation period.=
 But even under U.S. sanctions meant to block the sales,=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht=
tps://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranian-oil-shadow-fleet-black-market-3=
dc7fb6c?mod=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 =
gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inli=
ne;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,=
34,34)">Iran earned up to $43 billion in oil revenue</a>=C2=A0in 2024, befo=
re accounting for unspecified discounts, according to the U.S. Energy Infor=
mation Administration. The discounts vary but in 2025 averaged about 13%, a=
ccording to U.S. lawmakers.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1u=
zoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;col=
or:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font=
-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Most of the sales wer=
e paid for in yuan, according to the U.S. Treasury.=C2=A0=C2=A0</p><p class=
=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,G=
eorgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;f=
ont-size:18px">Tehran uses the money to buy Chinese car parts, solar panels=
 and other goods and services, as well as=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.c=
om/world/china-is-still-supplying-drone-factories-in-iran-russia-despite-u-=
s-sanctions-1e6820ca?mod=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=
=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px =
solid rgb(34,34,34)">dual-use inputs</a>=E2=80=94materials purportedly for =
civilian use that could also be used for weapons=E2=80=94all beyond U.S. ju=
risdiction.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-Styl=
edNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,=
34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:n=
ormal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Boats seeking safe passage thro=
ugh the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict were told to pay Tehran in yua=
n=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/iran-cryptocurrenc=
y-bitcoin-d8c0a09e?mod=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=
=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px =
solid rgb(34,34,34)">or cryptocurrencies, which are also hard for Washingto=
n to control</a>. Iranian and Chinese partners have set up secretive interm=
ediaries and=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-hong-kong-=
helps-the-flow-of-irans-hidden-billions-cfffb913?mod=3Darticle_inline" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decora=
tion:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">front companies in Hong Ko=
ng</a>=C2=A0and elsewhere to help facilitate more trade in yuan, Treasury o=
fficials say.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-St=
yledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(3=
4,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch=
:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Some of the transactions are =
settled on China=E2=80=99s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, or CIPS, =
a yuan-denominated alternative to the Swift messaging network. It was set u=
p by China in 2015 and can=E2=80=99t easily be monitored by the U.S.</p><di=
v class=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css-fb2dui-Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%=
;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-bo=
x;background-clip:border-box;width:700px;margin:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:bo=
th"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1wy0j8t-Wrapper exq6cte1" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1l2h3jc-SizesPerWidthContainer exq6cte0"=
 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;min-height:425px"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1=
exoyqb-Wrapper-imageFacadeStyles-chartsFacade emhpsms0" style=3D"box-sizing=
:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size=
:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-cli=
p:border-box"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div id=3D"gmail-chart_8=
7f45a396483192f1bdef485" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div class=3D"gmai=
l-dj-chart-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden"><div =
id=3D"gmail-highcharts-4owc4lu-0" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail-highcharts-con=
tainer" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;width:700px;height:4=
25px;line-height:normal"></div></div><div class=3D"gmail-dj-chart-inner" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden"><div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-4=
owc4lu-3" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail-highcharts-container gmail-wsj-digital=
 gmail-chart-lang-en" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:visible;width=
:700px;height:369px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p cla=
ss=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">Although still small, volume on the network jumped after=
 the U.S.-Iran conflict started. It has averaged roughly 790 billion yuan, =
or around $115 billion, a day in the three months since the end of February=
, according to the Atlantic Council think tank, compared with a daily avera=
ge of 680 billion yuan, or around $100 billion, last year.</p><p class=3D"e=
13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgi=
a,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-s=
ize:18px">The Belgium-based Swift messaging network is immensely larger, fa=
cilitating an estimated more than $5 trillion a day, including some message=
s that move across CIPS. But the fast expansion of CIPS activity means it i=
s becoming a more-global cross-border payments system, the Atlantic Council=
 says.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNew=
sKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34=
);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal=
;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">A similar pattern played out with=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/topics/place/russia" target=3D"_blank" cl=
ass=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1=
px solid rgb(34,34,34)">Russia</a>=C2=A0when its war in Ukraine started in =
February 2022. After the U.S. tightened sanctions, more Russian oil exports=
 and other trade with China were settled in yuan. Total daily transactions =
on CIPS have doubled and the number of financial institutions operating on =
the platform has more than doubled from the beginning of the war to mid-202=
5, according to Chinese central bank data and CIPS.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e1=
3wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia=
,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-si=
ze:18px">Today, Russian officials say more than 90% of trade between Russia=
 and China is settled in yuan and Russian rubles. A total prewar figure cou=
ldn=E2=80=99t be determined, but for comparison, the yuan was used in 2% of=
 Russian trade in February 2022, according to the Centre for Eastern Studie=
s, a Polish think tank.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz=
5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:r=
gb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-str=
etch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Overall, the yuan=E2=80=
=99s share of global trade finance tripled over the past five years to 6% i=
n April, according to data from Swift. It has been the second most-used cur=
rency in such financing for most of this year, ahead of the euro and behind=
 the dollar.</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css-fb2dui-Layout-ba=
seCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;backgr=
ound-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;backgroun=
d-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;width:700px;margin:32px 32p=
x 22px 0px;clear:both"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1wy0j8t-Wrapper exq6cte1" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1l2h3jc-SizesPerWidth=
Container exq6cte0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;min-height:425px"><div c=
lass=3D"gmail-css-1h3qrtm-Wrapper-imageFacadeStyles-chartsFacade emhpsms0" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0%=
 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding=
-box;background-clip:border-box"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div =
id=3D"gmail-chart_f3f916bd989374119bb3f54a" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"=
><div class=3D"gmail-dj-chart-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;ove=
rflow:hidden"><div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-4owc4lu-49" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"=
gmail-highcharts-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;=
width:700px;height:425px;line-height:normal"></div></div><div class=3D"gmai=
l-dj-chart-inner" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden"><div id=
=3D"gmail-highcharts-4owc4lu-52" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail-highcharts-cont=
ainer gmail-wsj-digital gmail-chart-lang-en" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;overflow:visible;width:700px;height:369px"></div></div></div></div></div><=
/div></div></div><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNe=
wsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,3=
4);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:norma=
l;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">About half of China=E2=80=99s cross=
-border transactions are now denominated in its own currency, compared with=
 almost nothing 15 years ago, according to Chinese central bank data.=C2=A0=
</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagrap=
h" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-famil=
y:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:=
break-word;font-size:18px">China also is rapidly expanding a program launch=
ed in 2021 called mBridge, a platform that uses digital versions of the yua=
n and other currencies to execute cross-border payments that are settled be=
tween central banks without the money passing through U.S. financial instit=
utions.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNe=
wsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,3=
4);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:norma=
l;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">All the yuan-based systems =E2=80=
=9Cmake it easier to work around U.S. sanctions,=E2=80=9D said Josh Lipsky,=
 a former International Monetary Fund staffer now at the Atlantic Council. =
=E2=80=9CThey cloud the U.S. intelligence community=E2=80=99s ability to se=
e financial flows.=E2=80=9D</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1u=
zoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;col=
or:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font=
-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China=E2=80=99s Forei=
gn Ministry in a statement said it was =E2=80=9Cunaware of the situation=E2=
=80=9D regarding oil trade between China and Iran. The two countries=E2=80=
=99 relations =E2=80=9Chave always been conducted within the framework of i=
nternational law,=E2=80=9D it said. China cooperates with countries around =
the world, including Russia, based on the =E2=80=9Cprinciples of equality a=
nd mutual benefit,=E2=80=9D it added.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1v=
ag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-=
spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China=
 has no intention of fully replacing the dollar with the yuan worldwide. A =
more dramatic increase in global yuan adoption would require Beijing to mak=
e painful changes to its economy, such as giving up capital controls and al=
lowing its currency to freely float, which could spark capital flight and d=
estabilize the country.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz=
5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:r=
gb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-str=
etch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Beijing=E2=80=99s goal in=
stead is to build up specific lanes of trade that work outside the U.S. dol=
lar. The push is driven in part by Beijing=E2=80=99s desire to undermine U.=
S. authority and assist its allies, former Treasury officials say. China sa=
ys it rejects sanctions imposed by the U.S.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1v=
ag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-=
spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Beiji=
ng also hopes to insulate China from the type of economic assault that the =
U.S. and other Western nations have launched on Iran and Russia, and would =
also likely unleash if Beijing ever made a move on Taiwan.=C2=A0</p><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css-fb2dui-Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;b=
ackground-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;=
background-clip:border-box;width:700px;margin:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both=
"><span class=3D"gmail-css-u314cv" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:b=
lock;padding-top:0px;height:auto;width:700px;border-radius:0px"><img alt=3D=
"Two oil tankers performing a ship-to-ship transfer of Iranian oil in inter=
national waters off Malaysia." width=3D"700" height=3D"327" src=3D"https://=
images.wsj.net/im-76769204?width=3D700&amp;height=3D327" class=3D"gmail-css=
-1hzqsjo" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; display: block; bord=
er-radius: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px; heig=
ht: auto;"></span><span class=3D"e1m33gv80 gmail-css-426zcb-CaptionSpan e1m=
33gv81" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;m=
argin-bottom:4px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,san=
s-serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal">Two tankers made a transfer=
 of Iranian oil off the Malaysian coast last year.=C2=A0</span><span class=
=3D"gmail-css-7jz429-Credit eq0esvu0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;direct=
ion:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.42857;text-transform:uppercase;color:r=
gb(111,111,111);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacin=
g:0px;font-stretch:normal">United Against Nuclear Iran/AP</span></div><p cl=
ass=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">Global finance is evolving into a system where =E2=80=9C=
a few sovereign currencies coexist and compete,=E2=80=9D said China=E2=80=
=99s central bank chief, Pan Gongsheng, in a speech last summer. Change fro=
m a dollar-centered world is required, because =E2=80=9Cin times of geopoli=
tical tensions, national security concerns, or even wars, the global domina=
nt currency tends to be instrumentalized or weaponized,=E2=80=9D he said.=
=C2=A0=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNew=
sKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34=
);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal=
;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">The U.S. is aware of the hole openin=
g in its global sanctions regime. Since the war in Iran began, Treasury off=
icials stepped up efforts to curtail Iranian oil sales to China and the mon=
ey flowing through the Chinese financial system, including by issuing new s=
anctions on Hengli and other Chinese refiners. It also threatened penalties=
 on Chinese banks servicing companies that are fronts for Iranian interests=
.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitP=
aragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);fon=
t-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word=
-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Sanctions still give the U.S. leverage ov=
er Tehran. The measures have increased the cost of selling Iranian oil and =
disrupted the regime=E2=80=99s access to those revenues. Iran=E2=80=99s eco=
nomy has suffered under U.S. sanctions, and a long-term deal could free up =
billions in much-needed frozen assets for the Iranian regime.=C2=A0</p><p c=
lass=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">The nuclear-deal talks have already proved bumpy, and th=
e outcome is uncertain. Iran =E2=80=9Chas the ability to play for time, to =
obfuscate, to make trouble,=E2=80=9D said Steve Yates, a former White House=
 national security official. But, =E2=80=9Cit has been profoundly degraded =
militarily, it has been profoundly degraded economically.=E2=80=9D</p><h3 c=
lass=3D"gmail-css-drfk52-Subhed e1ql5nkk0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;c=
olor:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;font-family:&quot;Escrow Condensed&quot;,&=
quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:22px;margin:24px 0px 16px">Iran-=
China pact</h3><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNews=
KitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34)=
;font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;=
word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China began taking steps to use the y=
uan for more international financial transactions after the 2008 global fin=
ancial crisis.=C2=A0</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css-fb2dui-L=
ayout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:non=
e;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;b=
ackground-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;width:700px;margin:=
32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1wy0j8t-Wrapper exq6=
cte1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1l2h3jc-Sizes=
PerWidthContainer exq6cte0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;min-height:425px=
"><div class=3D"gmail-css-14hvdmz-Wrapper-imageFacadeStyles-chartsFacade em=
hpsms0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-pos=
ition:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin=
:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x"><div id=3D"gmail-chart_8ecac44ba4b5c58457a42f81" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box"><div class=3D"gmail-dj-chart-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border=
-box;overflow:hidden"><div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-s0aizwp-0" dir=3D"ltr" cl=
ass=3D"gmail-highcharts-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:=
hidden;width:700px;height:425px;line-height:normal"></div></div><div class=
=3D"gmail-dj-chart-inner" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden"><=
div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-s0aizwp-3" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail-highcharts=
-container gmail-wsj-digital gmail-chart-lang-en" style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;overflow:visible;width:700px;height:369px"></div></div></div></div></=
div></div></div></div><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-Sty=
ledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34=
,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:=
normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China=E2=80=99s yearslong trad=
e surplus meant it had accumulated some $2 trillion in foreign reserves, mu=
ch of it in U.S. dollars. Beijing leaders were increasingly concerned that =
China=E2=80=99s savings were at the whim of the U.S. government and Federal=
 Reserve, whose decisions could weaken the value of China=E2=80=99s holding=
s or, in a crisis, cut the country off from dollars more broadly.</p><p cla=
ss=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">Beijing began using its excess dollars to make loans in =
the developing world, boosting its clout. It then began offering yuan-denom=
inated swap lines via its central bank to indebted countries, effectively m=
aking China a lender of last resort to poorer nations.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D=
"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Geor=
gia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font=
-size:18px">Then, Beijing introduced CIPS in 2015 to help internationalize =
the yuan. Three years later, it launched yuan-denominated oil contracts tra=
ded in Shanghai. That allowed China to settle oil it buys in yuan, rather t=
han dollars.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-Sty=
ledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34=
,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:=
normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China also successfully began =
encouraging global firms, including U.S. banks, to issue bonds in its curre=
ncy.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsK=
itParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);=
font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;w=
ord-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China=E2=80=99s yuan efforts were stil=
l young when the first Trump administration in 2018 launched a campaign to =
cut Iranian oil exports to zero and force Iran to negotiate over its nuclea=
r program and its support for militias across the Middle East, such as Hezb=
ollah.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNew=
sKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34=
);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal=
;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Iran=E2=80=99s sales collapsed as co=
untries, fearful of U.S. penalties that could curtail their dollar access, =
stopped buying. Tehran turned to Beijing.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1=
bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;let=
ter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">T=
he two sides signed a 25-year strategic pact in March 2021 to deepen econom=
ic and security ties. A draft published in Iranian media noted that Iran wo=
uld trade oil for Chinese investments in ports, railroads and other infrast=
ructure. It described the partnership as a bulwark =E2=80=9Cagainst illegal=
 pressures from third parties,=E2=80=9D a reference to Washington.</p><p cl=
ass=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">Still, Beijing was wary that buying Iranian oil exposed =
Chinese companies to the risk of being banned from the U.S.-dollar-led fina=
ncial system. Iran worked with customers in China to set up a clandestine s=
ystem for oil purchases, Treasury officials say, giving Beijing plausible d=
eniability about its purchases of sanctioned oil.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 =
e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;l=
etter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px"=
>Iran=E2=80=99s military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, =
set up covert trading units, which in turn established hundreds of shell co=
mpanies to work with middlemen to sell to Chinese refiners and disguise the=
 origin of the crude. The effort included the expansion of a shadow fleet o=
f tankers to move sanctioned oil between Iran and China in ways that disgui=
se the oil=E2=80=99s origin, such as by switching off the ships=E2=80=99 lo=
cation devices.=C2=A0</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css-fb2dui-=
Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:no=
ne;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;=
background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;width:700px;margin=
:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both"><div class=3D"gmail-css-1wy0j8t-Wrapper exq=
6cte1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><div class=3D"gmail-css-kqwdvu-Sizes=
PerWidthContainer exq6cte0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;min-height:425px=
"><div class=3D"gmail-css-kp1ein-Wrapper-imageFacadeStyles-chartsFacade emh=
psms0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-posi=
tion:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:=
padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
"><div id=3D"gmail-chart_65c1fe603fee4a7b98590358" style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box"><div class=3D"gmail-dj-chart-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;overflow:hidden"><div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-4owc4lu-132" dir=3D"ltr" c=
lass=3D"gmail-highcharts-container" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow=
:hidden;width:700px;height:425px;line-height:normal"></div></div><div class=
=3D"gmail-dj-chart-inner" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden"><=
div id=3D"gmail-highcharts-4owc4lu-135" dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail-highchar=
ts-container gmail-wsj-digital gmail-chart-lang-en" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;overflow:visible;width:700px;height:352px"></div></div></div></div>=
</div></div></div></div><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-S=
tyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(=
34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretc=
h:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Although Iran priced its oil=
 sales in dollars, Treasury officials say the transactions with Chinese buy=
ers were mostly settled in yuan. By the end of 2022, China had become Tehra=
n=E2=80=99s financial lifeline, buying more than 90% of its crude, accordin=
g to U.S. lawmakers.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uz=
oyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;colo=
r:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-=
stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">China=E2=80=99s bigges=
t state-owned oil majors steered clear of the trade because of the risk of =
international sanctions, but private companies such as Hengli, which runs a=
 massive refinery in northeastern China, became major customers, U.S. offic=
ials say.</p><h3 class=3D"gmail-css-drfk52-Subhed e1ql5nkk0" style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;font-family:&quot;Escrow=
 Condensed&quot;,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:22px;margin:24=
px 0px 16px">System to move yuan</h3><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-=
css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0=
px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0p=
x;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">A new nuclear d=
eal could allow Iran to re-enter the global financial system, but Tehran ha=
d already figured out a way to use its yuan earnings under sanctions.=C2=A0=
</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagrap=
h" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-famil=
y:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:=
break-word;font-size:18px">Instead of transferring yuan payments to Iran,=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-china-secretly-p=
ays-iran-for-oil-and-avoids-u-s-sanctions-b6f1b71e?mod=3Darticle_inline" ta=
rget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-deco=
ration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">Chinese oil buyers would=
 park the money with an entity known as Chuxin</a>, The Wall Street Journal=
 has previously reported. Chuxin would then deliver the funds to Chinese co=
ntractors that perform engineering work in Iran on projects such as airport=
s and refineries.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz=
5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:r=
gb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-str=
etch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Another way involved movi=
ng yuan-denominated payments from Chinese refiners through a special-purpos=
e-vehicle to Chinese exporters, who then transport goods such as automotive=
 parts to Iran, current and former Western officials say. Two little-known =
trading companies representing Chinese and Iranian backers managed the spec=
ial-purpose vehicle=E2=80=99s account balance, the officials said.</p><p cl=
ass=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchan=
ge,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-wo=
rd;font-size:18px">The nations have also experimented with direct barter. I=
n 2021, the Chinese city of Ningbo successfully traded $2 million worth of =
Chinese car parts for Iranian pistachios, bypassing the Swift network, acco=
rding to Chinese media.=C2=A0</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-layout gmail-css=
-fb2dui-Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-=
image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat=
:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;width:700p=
x;margin:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both"><span class=3D"gmail-css-u314cv" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:block;padding-top:0px;height:auto;widt=
h:700px;border-radius:0px"><img alt=3D"Vessels sailing through the Strait o=
f Hormuz." width=3D"700" height=3D"427" src=3D"https://images.wsj.net/im-99=
512000?width=3D700&amp;height=3D427" class=3D"gmail-css-1hzqsjo" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; display: block; border-radius: inherit; =
margin-bottom: 8px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px; height: auto;"></span><s=
pan class=3D"e1m33gv80 gmail-css-426zcb-CaptionSpan e1m33gv81" style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;margin-bottom:4px;col=
or:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spaci=
ng:0px;font-stretch:normal">Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in May.=C2=A0</=
span><span class=3D"gmail-css-7jz429-Credit eq0esvu0" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.42857;text-transform:u=
ppercase;color:rgb(111,111,111);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-ser=
if;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal">Reuters</span></div><p class=3D"=
e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georg=
ia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-=
size:18px">Some Iranian oil sales still involve dollars. Iran has establish=
ed a network of exchange houses and quasi banks, known as rahbars, that con=
trol front companies in Hong Kong, the U.A.E. and Turkey, according to Trea=
sury officials. These companies set up accounts at Chinese banks to pay for=
 goods in China and also to convert oil payments from yuan into dollars and=
 euros, which Iran can use around the world, Treasury and other officials s=
ay.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParag=
raph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-fa=
mily:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-bre=
ak:break-word;font-size:18px">Typically, the money moves through small Chin=
ese financial institutions. That helps shield China=E2=80=99s larger banks,=
 which are more deeply enmeshed in the global financial system, from any pe=
nalties if the transactions raise red flags.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2=
 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;=
letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px=
">Still, the amount involving dollars is small compared with the overall Ir=
an-China oil trade. Treasury says that front companies linked to Iran moved=
 nearly $4 billion, or around 10% of Iran=E2=80=99s estimated 2024 oil sale=
s, through the U.S. financial system in 2024 by using Chinese bank accounts=
 in Hong Kong.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledN=
ewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,=
34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:norm=
al;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">=E2=80=9CThe bulk of this money is=
 just staying in China,=E2=80=9D said Kerri Bitsoff, a former Treasury offi=
cial.</p><h3 class=3D"gmail-css-drfk52-Subhed e1ql5nkk0" style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;font-family:&quot;Escrow Con=
densed&quot;,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:22px;margin:24px 0=
px 16px">Rolling out mBridge</h3><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-=
1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;c=
olor:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;fo=
nt-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">The yuan=E2=80=99s =
importance was underscored after the war in Iran began. In March, the conta=
inership Newvoyager, which is Chinese owned, paid a $2 million fee to Tehra=
n in yuan to ensure safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, according to=
 people involved in the deal.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-=
1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;c=
olor:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;fo=
nt-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Other ships also pa=
id fees in yuan, though it is unclear how they settled the funds, the peopl=
e said.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNe=
wsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,3=
4);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:norma=
l;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">Early in the conflict, brokers and =
shipowners said crews had to lower cash in boxes from the deck to the IRGC =
when they crossed near Larak Island in the northern part of the Strait of H=
ormuz.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitPa=
ragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font=
-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-=
break:break-word;font-size:18px">The U.S. blockade, imposed in mid-April, m=
ostly halted similar traffic. The blockade was lifted last week as part of =
the U.S.-Iran negotiations.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1u=
zoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;col=
or:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font=
-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">In the U.A.E., barrag=
es of drone and missile attacks from Iran unsettled the country=E2=80=99s f=
inances. The majority of the population is foreign born, and the conflict r=
isks residents and investors leaving the country, converting their Emirati =
dirhams into dollars and reducing the dollar reserves of the central bank. =
The conflict also has curtailed the Gulf state=E2=80=99s dollar-denominated=
 oil exports, leaving fewer dollars coming in.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0=
r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,seri=
f;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18=
px"><a href=3D"https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-asks-u-s-for-a-w=
artime-financial-lifeline-3f9ea3a0?mod=3Darticle_inline" target=3D"_blank" =
rel=3D"" class=3D"ekxajjj0 gmail-css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;bord=
er-bottom:1px solid rgb(34,34,34)">Emirati officials told U.S. officials</a=
>=C2=A0that if the oil-rich Gulf state runs short of dollars, it may be for=
ced to use Chinese yuan for oil sales and other transactions, the Journal h=
as previously reported. That would deepen an already growing economic relat=
ionship between Abu Dhabi and Beijing.=C2=A0</p><div class=3D"gmail-media-l=
ayout gmail-css-fb2dui-Layout-baseCss ertdlv30" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;ba=
ckground-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border=
-box;width:700px;margin:32px 32px 22px 0px;clear:both"><span class=3D"gmail=
-css-u314cv" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:block;padding-top:0px;h=
eight:auto;width:700px;border-radius:0px"><img alt=3D"Residents watch black=
 smoke and flames rising from a burning warehouse in Sharjah City, UAE." wi=
dth=3D"700" height=3D"466" src=3D"https://images.wsj.net/im-86599001?width=
=3D700&amp;height=3D466" class=3D"gmail-css-1hzqsjo" style=3D"box-sizing: b=
order-box; opacity: 1; display: block; border-radius: inherit; margin-botto=
m: 8px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px; height: auto;"></span><span class=3D=
"e1m33gv80 gmail-css-426zcb-CaptionSpan e1m33gv81" style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;margin-bottom:4px;color:rgb(17,17=
,17);font-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-=
stretch:normal">Flames after an Iranian airstrike in an industrial area in =
Sharjah City, U.A.E., in March.=C2=A0</span><span class=3D"gmail-css-7jz429=
-Credit eq0esvu0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;direction:ltr;font-size:12=
px;line-height:1.42857;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(111,111,111);font=
-family:Retina,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:n=
ormal">Altaf Qadri/AP</span></div><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css=
-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;=
color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;f=
ont-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">The U.A.E. is also=
 a central player in China=E2=80=99s mBridge platform. Launched in 2021, mB=
ridge began as a collaboration involving the Switzerland-based Bank for Int=
ernational Settlements, China, the U.A.E., Thailand and Hong Kong. Saudi Ar=
abia, China=E2=80=99s biggest oil-trading partner, later joined. The system=
 employs some elements of cryptocurrencies but is controlled by governments=
.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitP=
aragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);fon=
t-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word=
-break:break-word;font-size:18px">The platform, which uses blockchain techn=
ology for commercial banks to transfer digital versions of the yuan and oth=
er currencies for their customers, was initially designed as a way of settl=
ing international transactions instantly, which would be faster than the cu=
rrent Swift-based system. Rather than having banks settle payments between =
two companies or individuals, the central banks of the two countries settle=
 the transaction using blockchain technology.=C2=A0=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e1=
3wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia=
,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-si=
ze:18px">The BIS eventually pulled out, after Russia discussed a potential =
=E2=80=9CBrics Bridge=E2=80=9D version of the mBridge technology. The entit=
y, which wasn=E2=80=99t created, would have incorporated the so-called Bric=
s countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, and be immune to Western sa=
nctions, though BIS said its withdrawal wasn=E2=80=99t due to political con=
siderations.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail-css-1uzoyz5-Sty=
ledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(34=
,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0px;font-stretch:=
normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">In a ceremony flying the flags=
 of China and the U.A.E. at an Abu Dhabi palace in November, Sheikh Mansour=
 bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the vice president of the Gulf state, which is a majo=
r U.S. defense partner, initiated the first ever government-to-government p=
ayment to Beijing on the platform.</p><p class=3D"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 gmail=
-css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Exchange,Georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0=
px;font-stretch:normal;word-break:break-word;font-size:18px">To further pro=
mote its use, Beijing took a significant step in January by allowing digita=
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/opinion/europe-special-envoy-russia-=
ukraine/

*A glimmer of hope in the Ukraine war*

Europe weighs a step it has long resisted.

*By Stephen Kinzer* =E2=80=93 Boston Globe - June 24, 2026

Six weeks after war broke out in Ukraine in 2022, Western leaders deputized
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to fly to Ukraine and warn its leaders
against signing a peace accord. His message, according
<https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2022/05/05/7344096/> to a source
close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was simple: =E2=80=9CPuti=
n is a
war criminal =E2=80=94 he should be pressured, not negotiated with.=E2=80=
=9D That has
remained Europe=E2=80=99s policy ever since. It may now be changing. Europe=
an
leaders are considering naming an envoy
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-putin-europ=
e-peace-talks.html>
to
Moscow.

That would be a welcome step. During wartime, it is never a good idea to
lose contact with the enemy. Yet for the last four years, European leaders
have maintained a firm policy of not speaking with Russian leaders or
diplomats. That was always unwise, but today it is more dangerous than
ever. Tension between Russia and its enemies in Europe =E2=80=94 Ukraine, N=
ATO, and
the European Union =E2=80=94 is reaching new heights.

The most graphic evidence of this escalation came with a Ukrainian drone
strike on the Russian city of St. Petersburg
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/03/world/russia-ukraine-war/?p1=3DArti=
cle_Inline_Text_Link>
this
month, just as a major international economic conference was about to
start. =E2=80=9COur long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your f=
orum in
St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers,=E2=80=9D
Zelenskyy told his Russian counterpart in an open letter
<https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-=
federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769>.
=E2=80=9CAs you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capab=
ilities.=E2=80=9D

President Vladimir Putin said
<https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-review/russia-review-may-22-29-2=
026>
that
if there are attacks on the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which lies
between Lithuania and Poland, =E2=80=9Cthe Russian Federation has all the m=
eans to
raze to the ground everyone who tries to do this.=E2=80=9D

Russia=E2=80=99s foreign ministry warned European countries against sending
peacekeeping or monitoring forces into Ukraine. =E2=80=9CThe deployment of =
military
units, facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western
countries in Ukraine is unacceptable to us and will be regarded as foreign
intervention posing a direct threat to Russia=E2=80=99s security,=E2=80=9D =
it said
<https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-foreign-forces-ukraine-wo=
uld-be-legitimate-targets-2026-02-02/>
on
its website. =E2=80=9CAll foreign military contingents, including German on=
es, if
deployed in Ukraine, will become legitimate targets for the Russian Armed
Forces.=E2=80=9D

Recent weeks have brought more disturbing portents. Ukrainian drones
have landed
and exploded in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
<https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/05/29/how-russia-is-turning=
-ukraines-drones-against-nato/>,
which along with Poland are the world=E2=80=99s most militantly anti-Russia=
n
countries. The drones were fired by Ukraine and aimed at targets in Russia,
but fell and exploded prematurely. Ukraine=E2=80=99s foreign minister said =
the
mishaps were =E2=80=9Cthe result of Russian electronic warfare deliberately
diverting Ukrainian drones from their targets in Russia.=E2=80=9D Anger was=
 so
great in Latvia that the prime minister fired the defense minister and,
soon afterward, was forced to resign
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy21k5917jo> herself.

In nearby Sweden, also a member of NATO, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson sai=
d
at a press conference
<https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/transcripts/2026/05/21/join=
t-press-conference-by-the-nato-secretary-general-mark-with-the-prime-minist=
er-of-sweden>
that
his country was willing to =E2=80=9Chelp the Ukrainians as much as we can t=
o direct
=E2=80=94 to help them direct =E2=80=94 their attacks in the right directio=
ns.=E2=80=9D Then, in
another sign of NATO=E2=80=99s intensifying involvement in the Ukraine war,=
 the
NATO-Ukraine Council held its first meeting ever on Ukrainian soil. =E2=80=
=9CThis,
in itself, sends a strong message of the enduring bond between NATO and
Ukraine,=E2=80=9D NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said
<https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/transcripts/2026/06/03/join=
t-press-conference-by-the-nato-secretary-general-mark-rutte-with-the-presid=
ent-of-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy>
at
a joint press conference with Zelenskyy.

NATO=E2=80=99s Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine program, which =
is based
in Wiesbaden, Germany, has become a permanent mechanism for coordinating
military aid and training that was previously organized largely by the
United States. It oversees training, equipment delivery, and logistical
support for Ukraine. Secretary General Rutte said the alliance is preparing
for a =E2=80=9Clong-term confrontation=E2=80=9D with Russia. Prime Minister=
 Kier Starmer of
Great Britain has asserted that Europe is =E2=80=9Cliving in more dangerous=
 and
volatile times than at any time in my life
<https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-remarks-5-june-2026>.=E2=80=9D L=
ast
month his government signed a defense pact with Poland that he said
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9y82ed4xo> was designed to confront
=E2=80=9Cthe challenge of Russian aggression.=E2=80=9D

These escalating threats and counterthreats raise an obvious question: With
the sides so far apart, what=E2=80=99s the point of Europe finally agreeing=
 to talk
with the Kremlin? The answer may be that as escalation threats intensify,
war exhaustion is taking its toll on both sides. A European envoy could
explore what possibilities this confluence might open. Two figures who have
been mentioned as possible European envoys, former German chancellor Angela
Merkel and former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi
<https://www.ft.com/content/1dc0f6c9-d06f-404b-ba5b-3cf2588bd467?syn-25a6b1=
a6=3D1>,
are experienced and wise pragmatists. Sending either one to Moscow could be
the beginning of a peace process.

The United States, bogged down once again in the Middle East and possibly
preparing a new intervention in Cuba, seems to have lost interest in the
Ukraine war. Russia and Ukraine appear frozen in conflict. A European
mission to Moscow could help ease this crisis, or at least lessen the
possibility of a NATO-Russia war. It would spark a glimmer of hope in
Europe=E2=80=99s darkening geopolitical landscape.



*Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson School of International
and Public Affairs at Brown University.*

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=3D"ltr"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115=
%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:10p=
t;line-height:115%"><a href=3D"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/opini=
on/europe-special-envoy-russia-ukraine/" target=3D"_blank">https://www.bost=
onglobe.com/2026/06/24/opinion/europe-special-envoy-russia-ukraine/</a></sp=
an></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-size:20pt;line=
-height:115%">A glimmer
of hope in the Ukraine war</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:16pt;line-he=
ight:115%">Europe
weighs a step it has long resisted.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>By Stephen Kinzer</b> =E2=80=93 Bo=
ston Globe - June 24, 2026</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Six weeks after war broke out in Ukra=
ine in 2022, Western
leaders deputized British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to fly to Ukraine an=
d
warn its leaders against signing a peace accord. His message,=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2022/05/05/7344096/" style=3D"co=
lor:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">according</a>=C2=A0to a source close=
 to Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was simple: =E2=80=9CPutin is a war criminal =E2=80=94=
 he should be
pressured, not negotiated with.=E2=80=9D That has remained Europe=E2=80=99s=
 policy ever since.
It may now be changing. European leaders are=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.ny=
times.com/2026/05/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-putin-europe-peace-talks.h=
tml" style=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">considering naming a=
n envoy</a>=C2=A0to Moscow.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">That would be a welcome step. During =
wartime, it is never a
good idea to lose contact with the enemy. Yet for the last four years, Euro=
pean
leaders have maintained a firm policy of not speaking with Russian leaders =
or
diplomats. That was always unwise, but today it is more dangerous than ever=
.
Tension between Russia and its enemies in Europe =E2=80=94 Ukraine, NATO, a=
nd the
European Union =E2=80=94 is reaching new heights.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">The most graphic evidence of this esc=
alation came with
a=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/03/world/russia-ukrai=
ne-war/?p1=3DArticle_Inline_Text_Link" style=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" targ=
et=3D"_blank">Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian city of St. Petersburg<=
/a>=C2=A0this
month, just as a major international economic conference was about to start=
.
=E2=80=9COur long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in=
 St.
Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers,=E2=80=9D Zel=
enskyy told
his Russian counterpart in=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.president.gov.ua/en/=
news/vidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769" s=
tyle=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">an open letter</a>. =E2=80=
=9CAs you know very well, that distance is
not the limit of our capabilities.=E2=80=9D</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">President Vladimir Putin=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-review/russia-review-may-22-2=
9-2026" style=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0tha=
t if there are attacks on the Russian enclave
of Kaliningrad, which lies between Lithuania and Poland, =E2=80=9Cthe Russi=
an
Federation has all the means to raze to the ground everyone who tries to do
this.=E2=80=9D</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Russia=E2=80=99s foreign ministry war=
ned European countries against
sending peacekeeping or monitoring forces into Ukraine. =E2=80=9CThe deploy=
ment of
military units, facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western
countries in Ukraine is unacceptable to us and will be regarded as foreign
intervention posing a direct threat to Russia=E2=80=99s security,=E2=80=9D =
it=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-foreign=
-forces-ukraine-would-be-legitimate-targets-2026-02-02/" style=3D"color:rgb=
(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0on its website. =E2=80=9CAll =
foreign military
contingents, including German ones, if deployed in Ukraine, will become
legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces.=E2=80=9D</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Recent weeks have brought more distur=
bing portents.
Ukrainian drones have=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.defensenews.com/global/eu=
rope/2026/05/29/how-russia-is-turning-ukraines-drones-against-nato/" style=
=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">landed and exploded in Latvia,=
 Lithuania, and Estonia</a>,
which along with Poland are the world=E2=80=99s most militantly anti-Russia=
n countries.
The drones were fired by Ukraine and aimed at targets in Russia, but fell a=
nd
exploded prematurely. Ukraine=E2=80=99s foreign minister said the mishaps w=
ere =E2=80=9Cthe
result of Russian electronic warfare deliberately diverting Ukrainian drone=
s
from their targets in Russia.=E2=80=9D Anger was so great in Latvia that th=
e prime
minister fired the defense minister and, soon afterward, was=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy21k5917jo" style=3D"color:rgb(70,1=
20,134)" target=3D"_blank">forced to
resign</a>=C2=A0herself.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">In nearby Sweden, also a member of NA=
TO, Prime Minister Ulf
Kristersson=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/=
transcripts/2026/05/21/joint-press-conference-by-the-nato-secretary-general=
-mark-with-the-prime-minister-of-sweden" style=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">said at a press conference</a>=C2=A0that his country was
willing to =E2=80=9Chelp the Ukrainians as much as we can to direct =E2=80=
=94 to help them
direct =E2=80=94 their attacks in the right directions.=E2=80=9D Then, in a=
nother sign of
NATO=E2=80=99s intensifying involvement in the Ukraine war, the NATO-Ukrain=
e Council held
its first meeting ever on Ukrainian soil. =E2=80=9CThis, in itself, sends a=
 strong
message of the enduring bond between NATO and Ukraine,=E2=80=9D NATO Secret=
ary General
Mark Rutte=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/t=
ranscripts/2026/06/03/joint-press-conference-by-the-nato-secretary-general-=
mark-rutte-with-the-president-of-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy" style=3D"colo=
r:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0at a joint press confere=
nce with Zelenskyy.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">NATO=E2=80=99s Security Assistance an=
d Training for Ukraine program,
which is based in Wiesbaden, Germany, has become a permanent mechanism for
coordinating military aid and training that was previously organized largel=
y by
the United States. It oversees training, equipment delivery, and logistical
support for Ukraine. Secretary General Rutte said the alliance is preparing=
 for
a =E2=80=9Clong-term confrontation=E2=80=9D with Russia. Prime Minister Kie=
r Starmer of Great
Britain has asserted that Europe is =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://www.gov.uk/=
government/speeches/pm-remarks-5-june-2026" style=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)"=
 target=3D"_blank">living in more dangerous and volatile times than at any =
time in
my life</a>.=E2=80=9D Last month his government signed a defense pact with =
Poland that
he=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9y82ed4xo" style=3D=
"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0was
designed to confront =E2=80=9Cthe challenge of Russian aggression.=E2=80=9D=
</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">These escalating threats and countert=
hreats raise an obvious
question: With the sides so far apart, what=E2=80=99s the point of Europe f=
inally
agreeing to talk with the Kremlin? The answer may be that as escalation thr=
eats
intensify, war exhaustion is taking its toll on both sides. A European envo=
y
could explore what possibilities this confluence might open. Two figures wh=
o
have been mentioned as possible European envoys,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ww=
w.ft.com/content/1dc0f6c9-d06f-404b-ba5b-3cf2588bd467?syn-25a6b1a6=3D1" sty=
le=3D"color:rgb(70,120,134)" target=3D"_blank">former German chancellor Ang=
ela Merkel and former Italian prime
minister Mario Draghi</a>, are experienced and wise pragmatists. Sending ei=
ther
one to Moscow could be the beginning of a peace process.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">The United States, bogged down once a=
gain in the Middle East
and possibly preparing a new intervention in Cuba, seems to have lost inter=
est
in the Ukraine war. Russia and Ukraine appear frozen in conflict. A Europea=
n
mission to Moscow could help ease this crisis, or at least lessen the
possibility of a NATO-Russia war. It would spark a glimmer of hope in Europ=
e=E2=80=99s
darkening geopolitical landscape.</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i>Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow =
at the Watson School of
International and Public Affairs at Brown University.</i></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">=C2=A0</p></div>
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https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-24/ty-article/.premium/mamdani-back=
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Mamdani-backed Brad Lander Defeats Dan Goldman in NY-10 Democratic Primary

In a show of force for the progressive left, all three of the candidates
endorsed by NYC Mayor Mamdani won their races =E2=80=A2 'We cannot keep pay=
ing for
Netanyahu's wars with our tax dollars,' the former NYC comptroller Lander
told supporters at his victory party.
Etan Nechin
<https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da5a-d42c-afff-dffa7afc0000>and=
Ben
Samuels
<https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da25-d718-a5ff-faa551710000>New
York
June 24, 2026

Former New York City comptroller Brad Lander has been elected as the
Democratic nominee for New York's 10th congressional district, having
defeated incumbent Representative Dan Goldman in the party primary on
Tuesday.

The election comes as part of a show of strength by candidates backed by
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in several races where the topic of Israel
has become a central issue.

Lander won by more than 30 points in a race widely seen as a referendum on
U.S.-Israel relations
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-23/ty-article/.premium/new-york-pr=
imaries-test-how-far-democratic-voters-will-go-on-israel-policy/0000019e-f5=
3e-d4c5-a9fe-fd7e5b6b0000>and
the role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a hawkish
pro-Israel lobby group, in American politics. Lander made Israel a wedge
issue, leaning into the differences between himself and Goldman, both
Jewish Democrats.

Goldman, who has longstanding ties with AIPAC but was also endorsed by
liberal Jewish organization J Street,
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-01-14/ty-article/.premium/j-street-en=
dorses-rep-dan-goldman-in-ny-congressional-race-against-brad-lander/0000019=
b-b987-d66b-a5df-bfd7af300000>
has
grown more vocal against Israel's government and policies as the campaign
progressed, even as he pushed back against making Israel a central issue in
the campaign.

Speaking to Haaretz, Lander said that, "Since October 7, I have spent more
time organizing together with Israelis and I found it very moving. This
idea of shared safety is what we need. I feel very passionately about this.
You have to have some humility on what keeps us and our neighbors safe, but
the current path is not working."

"I've been talking a lot with Israeli New Yorkers, but I understand again
that there are a set of anxieties that folks have about the politics here,
and you know that's why I wanted to try to center shared safety," he added.
"Democratic voters are speaking loud and clear that they don't want to pay
for Netanyahu's wars, but there is plenty of room for that to be a politics
that's committed to shared safety, that includes Israelis."

Asked about apprehension of Jewish communities by some in the Democratic
Party, including Mamdani, Lander said: "Mayor Mamdani and I differ on
issues, like one state versus two. Many American Jews feel the same way.
That's a conversation we're going to have to have. These disagreements
shouldn't mean we should stop compromising on the humanity of Palestinians
and Israelis, that stop compromising on anyone's humanity."

In his victory speech, Lander said that "Democrats are painfully divided by
our differences about the U.S. relationship to Israel and Palestine, and we
have to face up to it squarely."

"Our party needs to admit that Joe Biden's 'hug Bibi' strategy was a
catastrophic mistake. I believe it made us complicit in genocide," he
added. "We cannot keep paying for Netanyahu's wars with our tax dollars.
Democratic voters are saying this, loud and clear, he added.

New York's 10th Congressional District includes downtown Manhattan and
Western Brooklyn, including Park Slope, which has a sizable Jewish
population and was at the center of controversy over the boycott of Israeli
products
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-05-27/ty-article/.premium/brooklyn-fo=
od-co-op-votes-to-implement-boycott-of-israeli-products/0000019e-6838-d3a6-=
addf-effc32740000>
by
its iconic food co-op.

In his speech, Lander also attacked big money in American elections.

"It is time for the Democratic Party to walk away from dark money - from
PACs funded by crypto, Wall Street, AI and AIPAC. People can see through
this. They have seen through it for a long time," he said.

The race, which has been contentious, grabbed national headlines in the
past few days. At a rally on Saturday in support of New York's progressive
slate, Mamdani quoted Italian-Marxist writer Gramsci on living in a "time
of monsters," blasting AIPAC for bringing dark money into politics.

A day later, a Brooklyn coffee shop refunded an order from Goldman,
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-23/ty-article/doj-probes-coffee-sh=
op-chain-in-new-york-after-it-bars-pro-israel-u-s-lawmaker/0000019e-f26d-d5=
14-a9bf-fa7f26770000>
posting
screenshots of him from security footage and saying that his alleged
support of genocide and AIPAC was the reason for his ban.

Lander managed to galvanize the coalition that came out strongly against
the war in Gaza,
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-22/ty-article-magazine/.premium/ne=
w-yorkers-weigh-israels-place-in-their-politics-ahead-of-primaries/0000019e=
-ef70-d514-a9bf-ff7b2d190000>
while
also engaging with Israeli peace groups like Israelis for Peace, an Israeli
expat-led group opposing the Netanyahu government and the occupation.

In his speech, Lander spoke about meeting with Israeli activists who do
protective presence in the West Bank: "In Congress, I will try to carry a
fraction of the courage that they carry. I will be one of the Jewish
members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights.
And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two
different jobs. They are the same job."

U.S. President Donald Trump mocked Goldman over his loss, calling him a
"weak and pathetic Congressman."

Goldman was the lead counself in Trump's first impeachment in 2019. "I
guess people didn't like him illegally targeting President Trump," he wrote
in a Truth Social post.
Stunning upset

This was not the only race in which Israel played a prominent role on
Tuesday. In the night's most stunning upset, in New York's 13th
congressional district, Mamdani-backed organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier
defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat.

Avila Chevalier is a prominent activist among New York's pro-Palestinian
community
<https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-18/ty-article/.premium/the-ny-prim=
ary-all-about-israel-two-jewish-democrats-battle-over-aid-and-aipac/0000019=
e-db2d-d2be-abbf-fbef4e6a0000>,
helping organize Columbia University's pro-Palestinian solidarity
encampment and protesting on behalf of her potential constituent, Mahmoud
Khalil, when ICE arrested him after picking him up from his apartment.

Avila Chevalier faced backlash for attending a Democratic Socialists of
America-organized Palestinian solidarity rally one day after the October 7
attacks, which was condemned by progressive politicians like Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and then-state assemblymember Mamdani.

Espaillat, who is endorsed by AIPAC, accused her of "celebrating the death
of innocent people."

In New York's 7th congressional district, assembly member Claire Valdez
defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

Valdez, who was backed by Mamdani, was arrested at a 2025 protest against
weapons sales to Israel outside the offices of Sen. Chuck Schumer and
Kirsten Gillibrand, spoke at a Jewish Voice for Peace protest calling for
New York to divest from Israel Bonds, and backed local legislation that
would block nonprofits from funding Israeli settlements
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-06-23/ty-articl=
e-static/.premium/as-the-world-watched-gaza-israeli-settlers-charged-ahead-=
in-the-west-bank-a-clash-is-imminent/0000019e-b6d1-d7bd-a3bf-befd20750000>i=
n
the West Bank.

Valdez has also been heavily elevated by pro-Palestinian Super PACs such as
Justice Democrats and American Priorities =E2=80=93 with such groups ironic=
ally
putting into practice AIPAC's winning playbook of previous election cycles.

In New York's 12th congressional district, the most heavily Jewish district
in the country, Micah Lasher won a crowded field to succeed longtime Jewish
representative Jerry Nadler.

Lasher, a long-time aide of Nadler, defeated state assemblyman Alex Bores
and Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's grandson.

Israel played a lesser role in this race, with Lasher, in a recent
candidate forum at the non-denominational Bnei Jeshurun synagogue on the
Upper West Side, saying he was "exhausted by the obsession" with Israel in
the campaign.

In other races across the country, Israel played a less significant role.
However, in a race in Maryland's 5th congressional district, state delegate
Adrian Boafo defeated his two opponents in a race where AIPAC's United
Democracy Project has spent at least $5.7 million in hopes of elevating
Boafo.

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><div><div id=3D"m_4019188393642063312article-header"><h1>Mamdani-backed Br=
ad Lander Defeats Dan Goldman in NY-10 Democratic Primary</h1></div><p><fon=
t size=3D"4">In a show of force for the progressive left, all three of the =
candidates endorsed by NYC Mayor Mamdani won their races =E2=80=A2 &#39;We =
cannot keep paying for Netanyahu&#39;s wars with our tax dollars,&#39; the =
former NYC comptroller Lander told supporters at his victory party.</font><=
/p><div><div><div><div><address><font size=3D"4"><a rel=3D"author" href=3D"=
https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da5a-d42c-afff-dffa7afc0000" tar=
get=3D"_blank">Etan Nechin</a></font></address><font size=3D"4">and</font><=
address><font size=3D"4"><a rel=3D"author" href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/=
ty-WRITER/0000017f-da25-d718-a5ff-faa551710000" target=3D"_blank">Ben Samue=
ls</a></font></address><font size=3D"4">New York</font></div><div><font siz=
e=3D"4">June 24, 2026</font></div></div></div></div><div></div><p><font siz=
e=3D"4">Former New York City comptroller Brad Lander has been elected as th=
e Democratic nominee for New York&#39;s 10th congressional district, having=
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day.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">The election comes as part of a show of =
strength by candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in several r=
aces where the topic of Israel has become a central issue.</font></p><p><fo=
nt size=3D"4">Lander won by more than 30 points in a race widely seen as=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-23/ty-article/.premiu=
m/new-york-primaries-test-how-far-democratic-voters-will-go-on-israel-polic=
y/0000019e-f53e-d4c5-a9fe-fd7e5b6b0000" target=3D"_blank">a referendum on U=
.S.-Israel relations=C2=A0</a>and the role of the American Israel Public Af=
fairs Committee, a hawkish pro-Israel lobby group, in American politics. La=
nder made Israel a wedge issue, leaning into the differences between himsel=
f and Goldman, both Jewish Democrats.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Goldman=
, who has longstanding ties with AIPAC but was also=C2=A0<a href=3D"https:/=
/www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-01-14/ty-article/.premium/j-street-endorses-r=
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66b-a5df-bfd7af300000" target=3D"_blank">endorsed by liberal Jewish organiz=
ation J Street,</a>=C2=A0has grown more vocal against Israel&#39;s governme=
nt and policies as the campaign progressed, even as he pushed back against =
making Israel a central issue in the campaign.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4=
">Speaking to Haaretz, Lander said that, &quot;Since October 7, I have spen=
t more time organizing together with Israelis and I found it very moving. T=
his idea of shared safety is what we need. I feel very passionately about t=
his. You have to have some humility on what keeps us and our neighbors safe=
, but the current path is not working.&quot;</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">=
&quot;I&#39;ve been talking a lot with Israeli New Yorkers, but I understan=
d again that there are a set of anxieties that folks have about the politic=
s here, and you know that&#39;s why I wanted to try to center shared safety=
,&quot; he added. &quot;Democratic voters are speaking loud and clear that =
they don&#39;t want to pay for Netanyahu&#39;s wars, but there is plenty of=
 room for that to be a politics that&#39;s committed to shared safety, that=
 includes Israelis.&quot;</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Asked about apprehe=
nsion of Jewish communities by some in the Democratic Party, including Mamd=
ani, Lander said: &quot;Mayor Mamdani and I differ on issues, like one stat=
e versus two. Many American Jews feel the same way. That&#39;s a conversati=
on we&#39;re going to have to have. These disagreements shouldn&#39;t mean =
we should stop compromising on the humanity of Palestinians and Israelis, t=
hat stop compromising on anyone&#39;s humanity.&quot;</font></p><p><font si=
ze=3D"4">In his victory speech, Lander said that &quot;Democrats are painfu=
lly divided by our differences about the U.S. relationship to Israel and Pa=
lestine, and we have to face up to it squarely.&quot;</font></p><p><font si=
ze=3D"4">&quot;Our party needs to admit that Joe Biden&#39;s &#39;hug Bibi&=
#39; strategy was a catastrophic mistake. I believe it made us complicit in=
 genocide,&quot; he added. &quot;We cannot keep paying for Netanyahu&#39;s =
wars with our tax dollars. Democratic voters are saying this, loud and clea=
r, he added.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">New York&#39;s 10th Congressiona=
l District includes downtown Manhattan and Western Brooklyn, including Park=
 Slope, which has a sizable Jewish population and was at the center of cont=
roversy over the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-05-27=
/ty-article/.premium/brooklyn-food-co-op-votes-to-implement-boycott-of-isra=
eli-products/0000019e-6838-d3a6-addf-effc32740000" target=3D"_blank">boycot=
t of Israeli products</a>=C2=A0by its iconic food co-op.</font></p><p><font=
 size=3D"4">In his speech, Lander also attacked big money in American elect=
ions.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">&quot;It is time for the Democratic Par=
ty to walk away from dark money - from PACs funded by crypto, Wall Street, =
AI and AIPAC. People can see through this. They have seen through it for a =
long time,&quot; he said.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">The race, which has=
 been contentious, grabbed national headlines in the past few days. At a ra=
lly on Saturday in support of New York&#39;s progressive slate, Mamdani quo=
ted Italian-Marxist writer Gramsci on living in a &quot;time of monsters,&q=
uot; blasting AIPAC for bringing dark money into politics.</font></p><p><fo=
nt size=3D"4">A day later,<a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-0=
6-23/ty-article/doj-probes-coffee-shop-chain-in-new-york-after-it-bars-pro-=
israel-u-s-lawmaker/0000019e-f26d-d514-a9bf-fa7f26770000" target=3D"_blank"=
>=C2=A0a Brooklyn coffee shop refunded an order from Goldman,</a>=C2=A0post=
ing screenshots of him from security footage and saying that his alleged su=
pport of genocide and AIPAC was the reason for his ban.</font></p><p><font =
size=3D"4">Lander managed to=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/us-new=
s/2026-06-22/ty-article-magazine/.premium/new-yorkers-weigh-israels-place-i=
n-their-politics-ahead-of-primaries/0000019e-ef70-d514-a9bf-ff7b2d190000" t=
arget=3D"_blank">galvanize the coalition that came out strongly against the=
 war in Gaza,</a>=C2=A0while also engaging with Israeli peace groups like I=
sraelis for Peace, an Israeli expat-led group opposing the Netanyahu govern=
ment and the occupation.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">In his speech, Lande=
r spoke about meeting with Israeli activists who do protective presence in =
the West Bank: &quot;In Congress, I will try to carry a fraction of the cou=
rage that they carry. I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most =
willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly a=
gainst bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are th=
e same job.&quot;</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">U.S. President Donald Trump=
 mocked Goldman over his loss, calling him a &quot;weak and pathetic Congre=
ssman.&quot;</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Goldman was the lead counself in=
 Trump&#39;s first impeachment in 2019. &quot;I guess people didn&#39;t lik=
e him illegally targeting President Trump,&quot; he wrote in a Truth Social=
 post.</font></p><h3><font size=3D"4">Stunning upset</font></h3><p><font si=
ze=3D"4">This was not the only race in which Israel played a prominent role=
 on Tuesday. In the night&#39;s most stunning upset, in New York&#39;s 13th=
 congressional district, Mamdani-backed organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier=
 defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Avila =
Chevalier is a prominent activist among=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.haaretz=
.com/us-news/2026-06-18/ty-article/.premium/the-ny-primary-all-about-israel=
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f4e6a0000" target=3D"_blank">New York&#39;s pro-Palestinian community</a>, =
helping organize Columbia University&#39;s pro-Palestinian solidarity encam=
pment and protesting on behalf of her potential constituent, Mahmoud Khalil=
, when ICE arrested him after picking him up from his apartment.</font></p>=
<p><font size=3D"4">Avila Chevalier faced backlash for attending a Democrat=
ic Socialists of America-organized Palestinian solidarity rally one day aft=
er the October 7 attacks, which was condemned by progressive politicians li=
ke Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then-state assemblymember Mamdani.</font></=
p><div><div><div><div></div><font size=3D"4"><u></u><u></u></font></div></d=
iv></div><p><font size=3D"4">Espaillat, who is endorsed by AIPAC, accused h=
er of &quot;celebrating the death of innocent people.&quot;</font></p><p><f=
ont size=3D"4">In New York&#39;s 7th congressional district, assembly membe=
r Claire Valdez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.</font>=
</p><p><font size=3D"4">Valdez, who was backed by Mamdani, was arrested at =
a 2025 protest against weapons sales to Israel outside the offices of Sen. =
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, spoke at a Jewish Voice for Peace pro=
test calling for New York to divest from Israel Bonds, and backed local leg=
islation that would block nonprofits from=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.haare=
tz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-06-23/ty-article-static/.premium/=
as-the-world-watched-gaza-israeli-settlers-charged-ahead-in-the-west-bank-a=
-clash-is-imminent/0000019e-b6d1-d7bd-a3bf-befd20750000" target=3D"_blank">=
funding Israeli settlements=C2=A0</a>in the West Bank.</font></p><p><font s=
ize=3D"4">Valdez has also been heavily elevated by pro-Palestinian Super PA=
Cs such as Justice Democrats and American Priorities =E2=80=93 with such gr=
oups ironically putting into practice AIPAC&#39;s winning playbook of previ=
ous election cycles.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">In New York&#39;s 12th c=
ongressional district, the most heavily Jewish district in the country, Mic=
ah Lasher won a crowded field to succeed longtime Jewish representative Jer=
ry Nadler.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Lasher, a long-time aide of Nadler=
, defeated state assemblyman Alex Bores and Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kenne=
dy&#39;s grandson.</font></p><p><font size=3D"4">Israel played a lesser rol=
e in this race, with Lasher, in a recent candidate forum at the non-denomin=
ational Bnei Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side, saying he was &quot=
;exhausted by the obsession&quot; with Israel in the campaign.</font></p><p=
><font size=3D"4">In other races across the country, Israel played a less s=
ignificant role. However, in a race in Maryland&#39;s 5th congressional dis=
trict, state delegate Adrian Boafo defeated his two opponents in a race whe=
re AIPAC&#39;s United Democracy Project has spent at least $5.7 million in =
hopes of elevating Boafo.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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Firings now underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source
says
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[image: Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, center,
attends an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the
White House, on Monday. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images]
Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, center, attends an
event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, on
Monday. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN
Tue, June 23, 2026

The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump's acting director of
national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office
started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

"The deep state firings have begun," the source said, declining to give
details on how many jobs had been cut.

Several political appointees who were considered close to the prior
director Tulsi Gabbard were among the first to be fired, multiple sources
told CNN. One of the sources said some of those people had already been
walked out of the building as of Tuesday.

Sources had previously told CNN that Bill Pulte, Trump's pick to serve as
director of national intelligence in an acting capacity, was looking at
cutting hundreds of jobs
<https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/bill-pulte-intel-chief-takes-office?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo>
at
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Last week,
Pulte showed up to his new job a day early after asking for a list of every
employee in the office, sources told CNN, catching even outgoing director
Tulsi Gabbard off-guard.

A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the National
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and the National Counterintelligence and
Security Center were expected to be hit hard by the cuts. However, on
Tuesday, the first source said the NCTC had not been impacted by the
firings.

All offices were asked to provide a list ranking their personnel by Monday,
according to two sources familiar with the matter, who associated the
request with Pulte's mandate to carry out mass firings.

The firings came as top Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence
Committees sent a letter on Monday to Pulte warning him of the risks of
making large cuts to the workforce.

Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes wrote, "We are concerned by reports
that you intend to fire or place on leave hundreds of Office of the
Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) officers as soon as this week."

"While there is room to consider responsible reductions to ODNI's
workforce, any large cuts would follow on a substantial downsizing that has
already occurred in 2025 and risk jeopardizing the mission of an
organization explicitly created after 9/11 to prevent any future such
terrorist attack," the lawmakers wrote.

They continued, "Given your lack of experience within the Intelligence
Community, it is difficult to imagine that in such a short amount of time
you have already developed fully informed views as to how to shrink ODNI
without incurring risks to national security. Making significant structural
changes to ODNI, to include a reduction in force, is not an appropriate
course of action for anyone in an acting capacity, let alone without
consultation with Congress, and you should refrain from doing so."

When asked about the firings, a White House official pointed to Trump's
recent post on Truth Social in which he telegraphed "downsizing" in the
office.

"I have named William Pulte to be Acting Director of National Intelligence,
who will take over on June 19th, and have asked him to execute the
immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their
home agencies," Trump wrote.
CNN has reached out to ODNI for comment.

Pulte was in the Oval Office as Trump signed executive orders on Monday.
When he showed up to work a day early last week, he met with lawyers and
staffers.

As director of national intelligence, Pulte oversees 18 intelligence
agencies. His appointment irked some of Trump's closest advisers and allies
and caused significant consternation on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers raced
to try to confirm Jay Clayton, now the US attorney in Manhattan, to the
position permanently, only to have Trump abruptly end Clayton's
participation in a confirmation hearing
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.

Trump has previously said he wanted Pulte in the role only temporarily, but
it is unclear how long that might be. Gabbard had used the post in part to
hunt for evidence of voter fraud around the 2020 election that Trump lost,
and some fear Pulte will escalate those efforts.

When she served in the post, Gabbard had dozens of photos of herself posted
throughout the corridors of the DNI offices in northern Virginia. Two
sources told CNN those photos had all been removed as of Monday. The photos
were shot by her husband, who is a photographer.

*This story has been updated with additional reporting.*

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x-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(23=
0,231,232);overflow:hidden;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.25rem;color:rgb=
(88,87,86)"><div class=3D"gmail-inline gmail-mr-[1em]" style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232=
);margin-right:1em;display:inline">Tue, June 23, 2026</div></div></div></di=
v></div><div class=3D"gmail-mx-auto gmail-img_ybfqunurl9bu69b9ru8u9oouj9b9r=
un" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;bord=
er-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:640p=
x;color:rgb(26,25,25);font-family:yahooSans,&quot;yahooSans Fallback&quot;;=
font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><div style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,2=
32)"><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-wo=
rds" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;bor=
der-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-heig=
ht:2rem">The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump&#39;s acting dire=
ctor of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own offi=
ce started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.</p><p cla=
ss=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:=
rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">&=
quot;The deep state firings have begun,&quot; the source said, declining to=
 give details on how many jobs had been cut.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmai=
l-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margi=
n:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">Several political appoi=
ntees who were considered close to the prior director Tulsi Gabbard were am=
ong the first to be fired, multiple sources told CNN. One of the sources sa=
id some of those people had already been walked out of the building as of T=
uesday.</p><div class=3D"gmail-max-md:faux-bleed gmail-mb-4 gmail-bg-accent=
/2 gmail-pb-5 gmail-md:invisible gmail-md:mb-0 gmail-md:h-0 gmail-md:overfl=
ow-hidden gmail-md:pb-0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;bo=
rder-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin-bottom:0px;background=
-color:rgba(26,25,25,0.02);padding-bottom:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden"><=
div class=3D"gmail-py-2 gmail-text-center gmail-text-xs gmail-uppercase" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-col=
or:rgb(230,231,232);padding-top:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.5rem;text-align:cen=
ter;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1rem;text-transform:uppercase"></div><div=
 class=3D"gmail-flex gmail-w-full gmail-flex-nowrap gmail-justify-center" s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-co=
lor:rgb(230,231,232);display:flex;width:640px"></div></div><p class=3D"gmai=
l-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231=
,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">Sources had =
previously told CNN that Bill Pulte, Trump&#39;s pick to serve as director =
of national intelligence in an acting capacity,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www=
.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/bill-pulte-intel-chief-takes-office?cid=3Dexte=
rnal-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer nofollow" target=3D"_=
blank" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;b=
order-color:rgb(230,231,232);color:rgb(15,105,255);text-decoration:inherit"=
>was looking at cutting hundreds of jobs</a>=C2=A0at the Office of the Dire=
ctor of National Intelligence (ODNI). Last week, Pulte showed up to his new=
 job a day early after asking for a list of every employee in the office, s=
ources told CNN, catching even outgoing director Tulsi Gabbard off-guard.</=
p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border=
-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:=
2rem">A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the National Countert=
errorism Center (NCTC) and the National Counterintelligence and Security Ce=
nter were expected to be hit hard by the cuts. However, on Tuesday, the fir=
st source said the NCTC had not been impacted by the firings.</p><p class=
=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb=
(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">All =
offices were asked to provide a list ranking their personnel by Monday, acc=
ording to two sources familiar with the matter, who associated the request =
with Pulte&#39;s mandate to carry out mass firings.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb=
-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232=
);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">The firings came=
 as top Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence Committees sent a le=
tter on Monday to Pulte warning him of the risks of making large cuts to th=
e workforce.</p><div class=3D"gmail-max-md:faux-bleed gmail-mb-4 gmail-bg-a=
ccent/2 gmail-pb-5 gmail-md:invisible gmail-md:mb-0 gmail-md:h-0 gmail-md:o=
verflow-hidden gmail-md:pb-0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0=
px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin-bottom:0px;backg=
round-color:rgba(26,25,25,0.02);padding-bottom:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidd=
en"><div class=3D"gmail-py-2 gmail-text-center gmail-text-xs gmail-uppercas=
e" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;borde=
r-color:rgb(230,231,232);padding-top:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.5rem;text-alig=
n:center;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1rem;text-transform:uppercase"></div=
><div class=3D"gmail-flex gmail-w-full gmail-flex-nowrap gmail-justify-cent=
er" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;bord=
er-color:rgb(230,231,232);display:flex;width:640px"></div></div><p class=3D=
"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(23=
0,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">Sen. Ma=
rk Warner and Rep. Jim Himes wrote, &quot;We are concerned by reports that =
you intend to fire or place on leave hundreds of Office of the Director of =
National Intelligence (ODNI) officers as soon as this week.&quot;</p><p cla=
ss=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:=
rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">&=
quot;While there is room to consider responsible reductions to ODNI&#39;s w=
orkforce, any large cuts would follow on a substantial downsizing that has =
already occurred in 2025 and risk jeopardizing the mission of an organizati=
on explicitly created after 9/11 to prevent any future such terrorist attac=
k,&quot; the lawmakers wrote.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail=
-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-widt=
h:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;=
font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">They continued, &quot;Given your lack =
of experience within the Intelligence Community, it is difficult to imagine=
 that in such a short amount of time you have already developed fully infor=
med views as to how to shrink ODNI without incurring risks to national secu=
rity. Making significant structural changes to ODNI, to include a reduction=
 in force, is not an appropriate course of action for anyone in an acting c=
apacity, let alone without consultation with Congress, and you should refra=
in from doing so.&quot;</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:le=
ading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;=
border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-s=
ize:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">When asked about the firings, a White House =
official pointed to Trump&#39;s recent post on Truth Social in which he tel=
egraphed &quot;downsizing&quot; in the office.</p><div class=3D"gmail-max-m=
d:faux-bleed gmail-mb-4 gmail-bg-accent/2 gmail-pb-5 gmail-md:invisible gma=
il-md:mb-0 gmail-md:h-0 gmail-md:overflow-hidden gmail-md:pb-0" style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(23=
0,231,232);margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgba(26,25,25,0.02);padding-b=
ottom:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden"><div class=3D"gmail-py-2 gmail-text-c=
enter gmail-text-xs gmail-uppercase" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-=
width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);padding-top:0.5r=
em;padding-bottom:0.5rem;text-align:center;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1r=
em;text-transform:uppercase"></div><div class=3D"gmail-flex gmail-w-full gm=
ail-flex-nowrap gmail-justify-center" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border=
-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);display:flex;wi=
dth:640px"></div></div><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leadin=
g-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;bord=
er-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:=
1.125rem;line-height:2rem">&quot;I have named William Pulte to be Acting Di=
rector of National Intelligence, who will take over on June 19th, and have =
asked him to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, rev=
erting staff to their home agencies,&quot; Trump wrote.</p><div class=3D"gm=
ail-mb-4" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:soli=
d;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin-bottom:1rem"><div class=3D"gmail-mb-=
4" id=3D"gmail-recirc-45aaff2a-507c-3874-9d29-c1d2e010399d" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,23=
1,232);margin-bottom:1rem"><div class=3D"gmail-grid gmail-gap-4 gmail-lg:gr=
id-cols-2 gmail-lg:grid-rows-[auto_auto_1fr]" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);display=
:grid"><div class=3D"gmail-relative gmail-w-full" style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);wid=
th:312px"><div class=3D"gmail-absolute gmail-rounded-[4px] gmail-focus-with=
in:ring-2 gmail-focus-within:ring-link gmail-img_ybfqcuj9ro9i9b9p gmail-img=
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r_3e_" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;b=
order-color:rgb(230,231,232);border-radius:4px;clear:both"><div class=3D"gm=
ail-img_ybfq9iu9u8uiu9pu7luiu8u7uj9iurcujou9" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);height:=
84.4px;direction:ltr"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;=
border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232)"><div id=3D"gmail-img_ybfq=
9iu9u8uiu6u9urululou9ui95ut95u4ux9k959p59p" class=3D"gmail-img_ybfq9iu9u8ui=
u9pu7l gmail-stream-i-v3 gmail-img_ybfq9iu9u89bu8u7uj9iouj9i9b9rulu7uj9ru7u=
9od" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;bor=
der-color:rgb(223,223,223);margin-top:0px;width:auto;padding:0px;border-rad=
ius:0px;overflow:hidden"><div id=3D"gmail-outer_5753485060" class=3D"gmail-=
img_ybfq9iu9u8uiu9pu7luiu7q9iou9" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-wid=
th:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232)"><div id=3D"gmail-r=
box-t2m" class=3D"gmail-img_ybfq9iu9u8uiu9pu7luidcuq gmail-img_ybfq9iu9u8ui=
u9pu7luipu7u9dou9uioupun" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid d=
arkgray;margin:0px;direction:ltr;padding:0px;overflow:auto;width:auto;heigh=
t:auto"><span style=3D"font-size:1.125rem">CNN has reached out to ODNI for =
comment.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>=
<p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-c=
olor:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2r=
em">Pulte was in the Oval Office as Trump signed executive orders on Monday=
. When he showed up to work a day early last week, he met with lawyers and =
staffers.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-=
break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:s=
olid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;l=
ine-height:2rem">As director of national intelligence, Pulte oversees 18 in=
telligence agencies. His appointment irked some of Trump&#39;s closest advi=
sers and allies and caused significant consternation on Capitol Hill, where=
 lawmakers raced to try to confirm Jay Clayton, now the US attorney in Manh=
attan, to the position permanently, only to have Trump=C2=A0<a href=3D"http=
s://www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/politics/trump-cancels-dni-hearings-fisa?cid=3De=
xternal-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer nofollow" target=
=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:so=
lid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);color:rgb(15,105,255);text-decoration:inh=
erit">abruptly end Clayton&#39;s participation in a confirmation hearing</a=
>.</p><div class=3D"gmail-max-md:faux-bleed gmail-mb-4 gmail-bg-accent/2 gm=
ail-pb-5 gmail-md:invisible gmail-md:mb-0 gmail-md:h-0 gmail-md:overflow-hi=
dden gmail-md:pb-0" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-=
style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin-bottom:0px;background-colo=
r:rgba(26,25,25,0.02);padding-bottom:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden"><div c=
lass=3D"gmail-py-2 gmail-text-center gmail-text-xs gmail-uppercase" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:=
rgb(230,231,232);padding-top:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.5rem;text-align:center=
;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1rem;text-transform:uppercase"></div><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail-flex gmail-w-full gmail-flex-nowrap gmail-justify-center" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color=
:rgb(230,231,232);display:flex;width:640px"></div></div><p class=3D"gmail-m=
b-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing=
:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,23=
2);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">Trump has previ=
ously said he wanted Pulte in the role only temporarily, but it is unclear =
how long that might be. Gabbard had used the post in part to hunt for evide=
nce of voter fraud around the 2020 election that Trump lost, and some fear =
Pulte will escalate those efforts.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg =
gmail-md:leading-8 gmail-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border=
-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px =
1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:2rem">When she served in the post, Gabb=
ard had dozens of photos of herself posted throughout the corridors of the =
DNI offices in northern Virginia. Two sources told CNN those photos had all=
 been removed as of Monday. The photos were shot by her husband, who is a p=
hotographer.</p><p class=3D"gmail-mb-4 gmail-text-lg gmail-md:leading-8 gma=
il-break-words" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-styl=
e:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232);margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125re=
m;line-height:2rem"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;bor=
der-style:solid;border-color:rgb(230,231,232)">This story has been updated =
with additional reporting.</em></p></div></div></div></div>

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*https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-24/ty-article-opinion/idf-soldiers=
-were-sent-to-harass-a-bedouin-community-thats-halfway-to-expulsion/0000019=
e-ef71-dbf0-a3be-ff79a8710000
<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-24/ty-article-opinion/idf-soldiers=
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e-ef71-dbf0-a3be-ff79a8710000>*

6/24/26

*Israeli Soldiers Were Sent to Harass a Bedouin Community That's Halfway to
Expulsion - Opinion*
[image: IDF soldiers in the Bedouin community's residential compound in the
West Bank.]
*IDF soldiers in the Bedouin community's residential compound in the West
Bank.*

*A masked soldier and an unmasked female soldier forcing their way into a
Bedouin community's residential compound in the West Bank is not the kind
of incident that makes the news. Not even when the soldiers had been fed
the "hilltop youth" lie that sheep were stolen from a nearby settler
outpost and they are looking for them. Not even when they break into the
tin shacks "without even knocking on the door," as one person told me, as
they did last Thursday evening in a small community of the Kaabneh tribe in
Ma'aleh Wadi Qelt.*

*One side effect of the daily terror from the hilltop youth =E2=80=93 the r=
adical,
often violent youth from illegal settler outposts =E2=80=93 is that the thr=
eshold
of interest, shock and disgust keeps rising. If there are no dead or
wounded, and there aren't any dramatic photos of burning fields, then the
incident doesn't count. But this column reserves the right to be shocked
and disgusted even by a pair of soldiers armed with long rifles, sent by
some army commander in the hills to terrorize a civilian community,
children and adults. That's right, this is routine =E2=80=93 and it's disgu=
sting.*

*The Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit, in its response, doesn't
refer to the "stolen sheep" tale and presents the incident as follows:
After receiving information about a suspect who entered private Israeli
territory, IDF forces were called up to conduct searches in the area. There
is no known claim of a home invasion. A face covering requires approval
according to orders, and such approval was granted (but why not for the
female soldier? The IDF Spokesperson's Unit did not provide an answer).*

*And here's what we know: On June 18, at approximately 6 P.M., a military
jeep descended from Route 1, turned onto a dirt road, and stopped at the
entrance to the compound of tin shacks, to the sound of several dogs
barking. Until about a year and a half ago, this community had a modest
herd of 20 goats. "Kosher Jews" stole them, as is the local custom, which
is well documented in recent years.*

*"Some of us work in date plantations in Jericho, and one brother works in
the Mishor Adumim Israeli industrial zone," one member of the Kaabneh
family told me. "We leave around 5 A.M." He said that the soldier who
arrived to the compound claimed that that same morning, a teenager from the
compound had stolen sheep from one of the Jewish outposts that have sprung
up like poisonous mushrooms around the established Bedouin communities. He
further claimed that the teenager had "fled."*

*The family member replied to the soldier: "If they were stolen in the
morning, why are you only coming now? And who fled? He went to work." The
soldiers entered the tin shacks, presumably to look for sheep. It all
lasted only 15 minutes, enough to scare the children. The soldier warned,
"Next time I'll destroy your home." The threat did not surprise the
community members. They told me that the soldiers and those who sent them
want the Bedouin to leave, just like seven out of 16 families who used to
live in the community and could no longer bear the incessant harassment.*
*An IDF Jeep descends to the Bedouin residential compound.*

*Can this "home search" be separated from the ongoing harassment,
intimidation and attacks against about a dozen Bedouin communities in the
area between Khan al-Ahmar and the upper entrance to Wadi Qelt? A total of
67 attacks and harassmentincidents from January 2026 through last week are
documented on the website of the volunteer-run group Friends of Jahalin
(this is the name of one of the Bedouin tribes whose decades-long presence
in the area is threatened by settlers and Israeli eviction policies); 11 of
them were against the same Kaabneh community in upper Wadi Qelt.*

*On January 20, an ATV from a nearby outpost drove wildly toward a group of
children from the community. They ran away, and one fell and suffered a
head injury. On January 23 at 1 A.M., Jewish teenagers played loud music
near the homes of the Bedouin and directed blinding lights at them. On
January 29, unknown individuals again cut the pipes supplying water to the
community.*

*On February 5, between 2 A.M. and 3 A.M., teenagers from the outpost again
blasted music from loudspeakers and blinded those who woke up with strong
beams of light. On February 11 at 1:30 A.M., two young men with sidelocks
entered the shack where volunteers were sleeping =E2=80=93 the presence of =
the
volunteers can prevent, or at least document, harassment. Three mobile
phones were stolen, and the air was let out of their car tires.*

*On February 25, unknown individuals again cut the water pipes, and it
happened again on March 9. Three days later, at 1:30 A.M., residents of the
outpost on the hill above the community directed a powerful floodlight and
a laser beam at the tin shacks. On May 6, "settlers, some in IDF uniforms
and some masked,"as one of the volunteers wrote, came down the dirt road on
ATVs and informed the teenagers walking on it that it would now be closed
to them. This is the only access road to the community, since the settlers
and their violent tacticshave prevented community members from moving
freely in the area like they used to.*

*On May 19 at 1:30 A.M., six Jewish youths sat down near the Kaabneh
compound and shouted curses and threats for about 20 minutes. Afterward,
they hovered in between the homes, and one of them attacked one of the
volunteers with pepper spray. On May 25 the water pipe was damaged again.
On May 31, Israeli shepherds from one of the nearby outposts approached the
community compound with their herd, played music and danced. They also
blocked the residents' only access road.*

*According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the soldiers' activity on June
18 was for security purposes only. But this column was not born yesterday.
The IDF was and remains the defense army for the settlement enterprise: in
its official, respectable manifestations of devouring Palestinian land
since 1967 and in its most pogrom-like and psychotic manifestations, whose
declared goal is to empty the land of Palestinians, while settlers
constantly and openly use soldiers as an efficient and obedient tool.*

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ion</i></font></h1><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><div style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><img title=3D"IDF soldiers in the Bedouin community&#39;s residential c=
ompound in the West Bank." alt=3D"IDF soldiers in the Bedouin community&#39=
;s residential compound in the West Bank." width=3D"412" height=3D"239" src=
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o;display:block"></div></div><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25e=
m;margin-bottom:0.25em"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">IDF soldiers in th=
e Bedouin community&#39;s residential compound in the West Bank.</font></b>=
</span><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif">A masked soldier and an unmasked female soldier forcing their =
way into a Bedouin community&#39;s residential compound in the West Bank is=
 not the kind of incident that makes the news. Not even when the soldiers h=
ad been fed the &quot;hilltop youth&quot; lie that sheep were stolen from a=
 nearby settler outpost and they are looking for them. Not even when they b=
reak into the tin shacks &quot;without even knocking on the door,&quot; as =
one person told me, as they did last Thursday evening in a small community =
of the Kaabneh tribe in Ma&#39;aleh Wadi Qelt.</font></b></p><p style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">One side=
 effect of the daily terror from the hilltop youth =E2=80=93 the radical, o=
ften violent youth from illegal settler outposts =E2=80=93 is that the thre=
shold of interest, shock and disgust keeps rising. If there are no dead or =
wounded, and there aren&#39;t any dramatic photos of burning fields, then t=
he incident doesn&#39;t count. But this column reserves the right to be sho=
cked and disgusted even by a pair of soldiers armed with long rifles, sent =
by some army commander in the hills to terrorize a civilian community, chil=
dren and adults. That&#39;s right, this is routine =E2=80=93 and it&#39;s d=
isgusting.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson&#39;s=
 Unit, in its response, doesn&#39;t refer to the &quot;stolen sheep&quot; t=
ale and presents the incident as follows: After receiving information about=
 a suspect who entered private Israeli territory, IDF forces were called up=
 to conduct searches in the area. There is no known claim of a home invasio=
n. A face covering requires approval according to orders, and such approval=
 was granted (but why not for the female soldier? The IDF Spokesperson&#39;=
s Unit did not provide an answer).</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">And here&#39;s what =
we know: On June 18, at approximately 6 P.M., a military jeep descended fro=
m Route 1, turned onto a dirt road, and stopped at the entrance to the comp=
ound of tin shacks, to the sound of several dogs barking. Until about a yea=
r and a half ago, this community had a modest herd of 20 goats. &quot;Koshe=
r Jews&quot; stole them, as is the local custom, which is well documented i=
n recent years.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27=
)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">&quot;Some of us work in date plantatio=
ns in Jericho, and one brother works in the Mishor Adumim Israeli industria=
l zone,&quot; one member of the Kaabneh family told me. &quot;We leave arou=
nd 5 A.M.&quot; He said that the soldier who arrived to the compound claime=
d that that same morning, a teenager from the compound had stolen sheep fro=
m one of the Jewish outposts that have sprung up like poisonous mushrooms a=
round the established Bedouin communities. He further claimed that the teen=
ager had &quot;fled.&quot;</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:r=
gb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The family member replied to=
 the soldier: &quot;If they were stolen in the morning, why are you only co=
ming now? And who fled? He went to work.&quot; The soldiers entered the tin=
 shacks, presumably to look for sheep. It all lasted only 15 minutes, enoug=
h to scare the children. The soldier warned, &quot;Next time I&#39;ll destr=
oy your home.&quot; The threat did not surprise the community members. They=
 told me that the soldiers and those who sent them want the Bedouin to leav=
e, just like seven out of 16 families who used to live in the community and=
 could no longer bear the incessant harassment.</font></b></p><div style=3D=
"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-t=
op:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">An IDF Jee=
p descends to the Bedouin residential compound.</font></b></span></div><p s=
tyle=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif=
">Can this &quot;home search&quot; be separated from the ongoing harassment=
, intimidation and attacks against about a dozen Bedouin communities in the=
 area between Khan al-Ahmar and the upper entrance to Wadi Qelt? A total of=
 67 attacks and harassmentincidents from January 2026 through last week are=
 documented on the website of the volunteer-run group Friends of Jahalin (t=
his is the name of one of the Bedouin tribes whose decades-long presence in=
 the area is threatened by settlers and Israeli eviction policies); 11 of t=
hem were against the same Kaabneh community in upper Wadi Qelt.</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif">On January 20, an ATV from a nearby outpost drove wildly toward a =
group of children from the community. They ran away, and one fell and suffe=
red a head injury. On January 23 at 1 A.M., Jewish teenagers played loud mu=
sic near the homes of the Bedouin and directed blinding lights at them. On =
January 29, unknown individuals again cut the pipes supplying water to the =
community.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif">On February 5, between 2 A.M. and 3 A.M., te=
enagers from the outpost again blasted music from loudspeakers and blinded =
those who woke up with strong beams of light. On February 11 at 1:30 A.M., =
two young men with sidelocks entered the shack where volunteers were sleepi=
ng =E2=80=93 the presence of the volunteers can prevent, or at least docume=
nt, harassment. Three mobile phones were stolen, and the air was let out of=
 their car tires.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,=
27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">On February 25, unknown individuals a=
gain cut the water pipes, and it happened again on March 9. Three days late=
r, at 1:30 A.M., residents of the outpost on the hill above the community d=
irected a powerful floodlight and a laser beam at the tin shacks. On May 6,=
 &quot;settlers, some in IDF uniforms and some masked,&quot;as one of the v=
olunteers wrote, came down the dirt road on ATVs and informed the teenagers=
 walking on it that it would now be closed to them. This is the only access=
 road to the community, since the settlers and their violent tacticshave pr=
evented community members from moving freely in the area like they used to.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">On May 19 at 1:30 A.M., six Jewish youths sat down nea=
r the Kaabneh compound and shouted curses and threats for about 20 minutes.=
 Afterward, they hovered in between the homes, and one of them attacked one=
 of the volunteers with pepper spray. On May 25 the water pipe was damaged =
again. On May 31, Israeli shepherds from one of the nearby outposts approac=
hed the community compound with their herd, played music and danced. They a=
lso blocked the residents&#39; only access road.</font></b></p><p style=3D"=
max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Accord=
ing to the IDF Spokesperson&#39;s Unit, the soldiers&#39; activity on June =
18 was for security purposes only. But this column was not born yesterday. =
The IDF was and remains the defense army for the settlement enterprise: in =
its official, respectable manifestations of devouring Palestinian land sinc=
e 1967 and in its most pogrom-like and psychotic manifestations, whose decl=
ared goal is to empty the land of Palestinians, while settlers constantly a=
nd openly use soldiers as an efficient and obedient tool.</font></b></p></d=
iv></div>
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In this amazing exclusive interview today at Responsible Statecraft,
reporter Austin Campbell quotes Rep. Marlin Stutzman admitting he consulted
with Israeli officials before proposing a resolution that would allow for
more US-Israeli cooperation and partnership. He says he had many
"conversations" with Israelis before this point about how to reduce direct
US aid while continuing the material relationship in other ways. In
fact, before
traveling to Israel, Stutzman said he contacted Israeli Ambassador Yechiel
Leiter to ask whether such a proposal was "a direction that you guys would
be comfortable with us going."

He now hangs proudly Netanyahu's "thank you" letter outside his office.

This is definitely worth a read:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-israel-military-cooperation/

best,
Kelley V
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4
White House weighs weapons challenge
[image: A chart showing key US munition stockpiles and timelines to rebuild
them.] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5707123115379049392_>

*The question of how to refill the US=E2=80=99 dwindling cache of munitions=
 will
take center stage at the White House today, *as Trump gathers defense
companies to talk about juicing production. =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re really i=
n a big strong
economic push to do the weapons,=E2=80=9D Trump said Monday
<https://semafor.com/s/FP5dpllEDU?email=3Dcwfresidence@gmail.com>, adding
that car companies with =E2=80=9Cexcess capacity=E2=80=9D would also help p=
roduce missiles.
The meeting follows one in March
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defense contractors and is expected to include similar participants. The
Iran war has eroded stockpiles
<https://semafor.com/s/Xn1VhGw6X8?email=3Dcwfresidence@gmail.com> of
expensive weapons that take months to build. The Pentagon offered no
details about the meeting itself, but chief spokesman Sean Parnell said the
military =E2=80=9Chas everything it needs to execute at the time and place =
of the
President=E2=80=99s choosing.=E2=80=9D Meanwhile, Congress is looking at ba=
rring defense
contractors <https://semafor.com/s/h0hVgr0nhi?email=3Dcwfresidence@gmail.co=
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from
executing stock buybacks or paying dividends without Pentagon approval, an
extension of a January executive order.

=E2=80=94 *Morgan Chalfant*

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ng:-0.02em"><strong>The question of how to refill the US=E2=80=99 dwindling=
 cache of munitions will take center stage at the White House today,=C2=A0<=
/strong>as Trump gathers defense companies to talk about juicing production=
. =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re really in a big strong economic push to do the wea=
pons,=E2=80=9D=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://semafor.com/s/FP5dpllEDU?email=3Dcwf=
residence@gmail.com" style=3D"color:rgb(14,41,181)" target=3D"_blank">Trump=
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f=3D"https://semafor.com/s/EVDZI6F9Yi?email=3Dcwfresidence@gmail.com" style=
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nse contractors and is expected to include similar participants. The Iran w=
ar has=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://semafor.com/s/Xn1VhGw6X8?email=3Dcwfresidenc=
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ss is looking at=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://semafor.com/s/h0hVgr0nhi?email=3Dc=
wfresidence@gmail.com" style=3D"color:rgb(14,41,181)" target=3D"_blank">bar=
ring defense contractors</a>=C2=A0from executing stock buybacks or paying d=
ividends without Pentagon approval, an extension of a January executive ord=
er.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-family:&quot;Times =
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/politics/democrats-israel-new-york-ch=
evalier-lander-valdez.html
Victories by Pro-Palestinian Democrats Show the Party=E2=80=99s Shift on Is=
rael

Three Democrats who have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel won
primaries in New York on Tuesday, signaling their party=E2=80=99s new skept=
icism of
the country and its actions.
[image: Darializa Avila Chevalier speaking into a megaphone as Mayor Zohran
Mamdani of New York City looks on.]
Darializa Avila Chevalier, who was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New
York City, won an upset Democratic primary victory on Tuesday night over
Representative Adriano Espaillat.Credit...Lexi Parra/The New York Times

By Jennifer Medina <https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-medina> and Reid J.
Epstein <https://www.nytimes.com/by/reid-j-epstein>
June 24, 2026

Three Democrats who made criticism of Israel central to their political
identities swept to victory in House primary races in New York City on
Tuesday, signaling a new era of skepticism in their party toward the Jewish
state and its actions.

The striking results reflected a fast-moving shift in liberal politics.
Democratic voters are now more likely to be critical of Israel and its
government than they are to be supportive, according to several recent
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/21/polls/times-siena-national-=
poll-crosstabs.html>
polls
<https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israe=
l-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/>,
a monumental change in American sentiment.

And while many Democratic officials remain supportive of Israel, next
year=E2=80=99s class of congressional Democrats is on track to be more wary=
 about
America=E2=80=99s relationship with Israel than at any other moment since t=
he
Jewish state was established after World War II.

The primary triumphs in deep-blue districts of Brad Lander
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/ny10-primary-lander.html>, Cla=
ire
Valdez
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/ny7-primary-claire-valdez.html=
>
and Darializa Avila Chevalier
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/ny13-darializa-avila-chevalier=
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came after each was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, whose
advocacy for the Palestinian cause has been integral to his rapid political
rise. At a rally for the candidates last week, he called the nation=E2=80=
=99s
leading pro-Israel organization part of a group of =E2=80=9Cmonsters=E2=80=
=9D that he said
were too powerful in American politics.

At Ms. Avila Chevalier=E2=80=99s victory party on Tuesday night in Harlem,
supporters chanted =E2=80=9Cfree Palestine=E2=80=9D while she pushed her ca=
mpaign=E2=80=99s
=E2=80=9Cbabies, not bombs=E2=80=9D slogan. She suggested in her victory sp=
eech that her
win represented a shift in how Democrats in New York would operate.

=E2=80=9CToday, we make it clear: The politics of the past ends today,=E2=
=80=9D she said.

Super PACs allied with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the
pro-Israel group, have spent huge amounts of money on this year=E2=80=99s m=
idterm
elections to try to turn the tide in voter opinion. The organization has
had some victories, saying in a statement on Tuesday night that 180
Democrats and Republicans it had endorsed had advanced to the November
election. The group congratulated a Maryland House candidate
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/maryland-5th-district-democ=
ratic-primary.html>
its allied super PAC spent millions backing and said this would =E2=80=9Cen=
sure
this seat remains represented by pro-Israel leadership.=E2=80=9D

But despite those successes, AIPAC has largely been on the defensive.

Polls show that support for Israel among Democrats has sharply and steadily
eroded since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel=E2=
=80=99s
subsequent destruction of most of Gaza. A New York Times/Siena survey
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/poll-democrats-midterms-hou=
se-senate.html>
this spring found that 60 percent of Democratic supporters said they were
more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, compared with 15 percent
who were more supportive of Israel.

=E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re seeing more and more Democrats making it clear that=
 we should
provide no U.S. taxpayer support to the government of Israel,=E2=80=9D Sena=
tor
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said in an interview on Tuesday. Next year, he
added, =E2=80=9CI hope we will see a Congress that doesn=E2=80=99t provide =
reflexive
unconditional support to the government of Israel.=E2=80=9D

Perhaps the most significant of the New York races pitted Representative
Dan Goldman, a two-term Democrat from Brooklyn, against Mr. Lander, the
former New York City comptroller, who staked his campaign on opposing Mr.
Goldman for being insufficiently critical of Israel.

The race between the two men, Jews who both describe themselves as liberal
Zionists, symbolized how Democratic voters, especially younger ones, have
shifted away from support for Israel.

But perhaps the most outspoken anti-Israel Democratic candidate who won in
New York City, Ms. Avila Chevalier, defeated Representative Adriano
Espaillat, who has been a steadfast supporter of Israel in his decade in
Congress. Ms. Avila Chevalier spoke often of having lived in the West Bank
and attended a rally
<https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/avila-chevalier-attended-o=
ct-8-pro-palestinian-rally-lander-condemned/413981/>
on Oct. 8, 2023, that was widely criticized for featuring speakers who
appeared to justify the attacks a day earlier.

Like Mr. Lander and Ms. Valdez, Ms. Avila Chevalier is now the Democratic
nominee in a solidly blue House district and is a heavy favorite to wind up
in Congress come January.

[image: Brad Lander smiling and speaking to voters in Brooklyn.]
Brad Lander, a former New York City comptroller, easily defeated
Representative Dan Goldman of New York in a Democratic primary race that
revolved around the politics of Israel. Credit...Angelina Katsanis for The
New York Times

The fights in New York became increasingly nasty in the final days of the
campaign. A local coffee shop chain wrote on social media that Mr. Goldman
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/nyregion/coffee-shop-poetica-dan-goldma=
n-israel.html>,
who is critical of Israel=E2=80=99s government but has opposed banning aid =
to the
country, was not welcome because it did not serve =E2=80=9Cgenocide enabler=
s.=E2=80=9D
Pitched Midterm Battles Over Israel

The main super PAC tied to AIPAC, the United Democracy Project, has spent
more than $25 million so far this year, in addition to at least $5 million
it has funneled to create new super PACs.

That sum may be just a fraction of what is to come. The group started the
year with more than $96 million, making it one of the best-funded PACs in
the country.

Its most prominent spending battles so far have been in New Jersey and
Illinois. But Israel also became a driving issue in several House primaries
in California.

The results have been mixed. In the Chicago suburbs, Daniel Biss, the mayor
of Evanston, Ill., won a House primary
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/elections/illinois-9th-district-cong=
ress-democratic-primary-biss.html>
after explicitly attacking AIPAC. The group spent $7 million in the race,
mostly aimed at defeating Mr. Biss, who is Jewish. But in the final days of
the primary, when it became clearer that a candidate even more critical of
Israel than Mr. Biss could win, the super PAC dialed back its attacks on hi=
m
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/elections/aipac-pro-israel-lobby-mid=
terms.html>
.

[image: Daniel Biss speaking during a debate in February in Chicago.]
Daniel Biss won a Democratic House primary in Illinois after explicitly
denouncing AIPAC, drawing attack ads against him. Credit...Joshua Lott for
The New York Times

In New Jersey, the AIPAC-tied super PAC targeted Tom Malinowski, a popular
former congressman who supported more restrictions on aid to Israel. But in
an embarrassing turn for AIPAC, Analilia Mejia, a progressive organizer who
was loudly critical of Israel, beat him in the special election and then
won a later primary.

AIPAC has won victories, too. Two of its preferred candidates
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/elections/house-primaries-aipac-alli=
es-illinois.html>
in Illinois won crowded primaries, even as another anti-AIPAC Democrat won
in a Chicago district.

In Washington, defending Israel has fallen out of favor among many
congressional Democrats, with a large majority of senators who caucus with
the party voting this year to block some U.S. arms sales to Israel
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/senate-israel-arms-vote-ira=
n-war.html>
.

=E2=80=9CDo I think the Overton window on Israel has shifted more in the la=
st six
months than my entire career?=E2=80=9D said Amy Rutkin, the longtime chief =
of staff
to Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the longest-serving Jewish
Democrat in the House, who is retiring. =E2=80=9CIt surely, absolutely has.=
=E2=80=9D

The shift is part of a generational change after the retirements of
longtime Democratic leaders like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in
the House, both of whom are stalwart supporters of Israel. Representative
Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, is also a backer of
Israel.

But among Democratic voters, support for Israel has crumbled. And even
House Democrats who are broadly supportive of Israel are highly critical of
Benjamin Netanyahu, the country=E2=80=99s prime minister. Few enthusiastica=
lly
support the right-wing Israeli government, and many are openly counting
down until elections there, which are scheduled for October.
Shifting Winds in New York

The Democratic shift on Israel has been particularly notable in New York,
home to the country=E2=80=99s largest Jewish population and a mayor who has
frequently focused on the plight of Palestinians.

=E2=80=9CThe monsters that we are up against, they take many different form=
s,=E2=80=9D Mr.
Mamdani said at a recent rally for his endorsed candidates, before adding
that AIPAC believed =E2=80=9Cthe only thing more frightening than democracy=
 being
allowed to run its course is an end to genocide and Netanyahu=E2=80=99s war=
s.=E2=80=9D

Many Jewish leaders and groups criticized the remarks, arguing that they
echoed antisemitic tropes at a time of increased hate crimes targeting Jews=
.

[image: Claire Valdez, center left, clapping alongside Zohran Mamdani as
other supporters hold signs for her campaign around them.]
Claire Valdez, center left, who was also backed by Mr. Mamdani, won her
Democratic primary for an open seat in New York City. Credit...Ryan Murphy
for The New York Times

One of the candidates the mayor backed, Ms. Avila Chevalier, defeated Mr.
Espaillat, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was the
only candidate in New York who was explicitly backed by AIPAC=E2=80=99s sup=
er
PAC, which
transferred money to a separate group that supported him
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/new-york-primary-campaign-spen=
ding.html>
.

In the 10th Congressional District, which includes Lower Manhattan and a
large area of Brooklyn and is one of the most Jewish districts in the
country, Mr. Goldman, the Brooklyn Democrat, frequently argued that a focus
on foreign policy was misplaced given voters=E2=80=99 domestic priorities. =
Those
arguments fell flat: He lost badly, trailing late Tuesday by more than 30
percentage points
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-new-york-us-=
house-10-primary.html>
.

Several Jewish Democrats who are most likely heading to the House,
including Mr. Lander and Mr. Biss, have taken a more antagonistic tone
toward the current Israeli government. But whether they will take radically
different approaches to policy remains to be seen.
AIPAC as a Litmus Test

For decades, AIPAC was the leading voice of a bipartisan congressional
consensus on the importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance. Now, many
Democrats in contested primaries want nothing to do with it.

The organization has become a symbol of dark money, alongside organizations
backing the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries. And all
three interest groups are spending money on many of the same races.

None of the advertisements paid for by the AIPAC super PAC even mention
Israel, focusing instead on top-polling issues in each area.

In Maryland, the super PAC spent more than $5 million to back Adrian Boafo,
a state legislator, in the primary to replace Mr. Hoyer. The ads focused on
Mr. Boafo=E2=80=99s biography and his accomplishments in Annapolis. Cryptoc=
urrency
interests spent an additional $3.4 million to back Mr. Boafo, according to
AdImpact, a media tracking firm. He ended up finishing well ahead
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-maryland-us-=
house-5-primary.html>
of a crowded Democratic field.

The next Democratic primaries to revolve around Israel will come in August,
when Minnesota, Michigan and other states are holding competitive
intraparty contests.

At a Democratic primary debate for Senate last week in Minnesota
<https://www.pbs.org/video/dfl-primary-us-senate-debate-sefhgt/>, Lt. Gov.
Peggy Flanagan declared that =E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t take AIPAC money beca=
use my values
don=E2=80=99t align with AIPAC.=E2=80=9D Her opponent, Representative Angie=
 Craig, who has
been endorsed by AIPAC in the past, replied that she had taken =E2=80=9Cnot=
 one
penny=E2=80=9D from the group and called for Mr. Netanyahu to lose his re-e=
lection
bid in October.

The most divisive race, however, will be in Michigan, which has large
Jewish and Muslim populations.

The Democratic Senate primary there includes Representative Haley Stevens,
a staunch backer of Israel, and Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive public health
official who has called Israel=E2=80=99s actions a genocide and opposes any
military aid to the country. A third candidate, State Senator Mallory
McMorrow, has tried to take a middle path on Israel, but is struggling in
the polls.

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itics/democrats-israel-new-york-chevalier-lander-valdez.html" target=3D"_bl=
ank">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/politics/democrats-israel-new-yo=
rk-chevalier-lander-valdez.html</a></font><br>
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            <h1 id=3D"m_2970802988870275832link-364b0684">Victories by Pro-=
Palestinian
              Democrats Show the Party=E2=80=99s Shift on Israel</h1>
          </div>
          <p id=3D"m_2970802988870275832article-summary"><font size=3D"4">T=
hree Democrats who have been outspoken in their
              criticism of Israel won primaries in New York on Tuesday,
              signaling their party=E2=80=99s new skepticism of the country=
 and
              its actions.</font></p>
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              <div><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><img alt=3D"Darializa Avila =
Chevalier speaking into a megaphone as Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York Cit=
y looks on. " src=3D"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/24/multimedia/=
24pol-dems-israel-fzcb/24pol-dems-israel-fzcb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75=
&amp;auto=3Dwebp&amp;disable=3Dupscale" width=3D"600" height=3D"400"><u></u=
></div>
              <span>Darializa Avila
                  Chevalier, who was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani of
                  New York City, won an upset Democratic primary victory
                  on Tuesday night over Representative Adriano
                  Espaillat.</span><span><span>Credit...</span><span><span =
aria-hidden=3D"false">Lexi Parra/The New York Times</span></span></span>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <div>
                <p><font size=3D"4"><span>By </span><a href=3D"https://www.=
nytimes.com/by/jennifer-medina" target=3D"_blank">Jennifer Medina</a> and <=
a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/by/reid-j-epstein" target=3D"_blank">Reid=
 J.
                      Epstein</a></font></p>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div><font size=3D"4"><span>June 24, 2026</span></font></div>
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          <div>
            <div>
              <div>
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            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
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          <div>
            <div> </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Three
                  Democrats who made criticism of Israel central to
                  their political identities swept to victory in House
                  primary races in New York City on Tuesday, signaling a
                  new era of skepticism in their party toward the Jewish
                  state and its actions.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  striking results reflected a fast-moving shift in
                  liberal politics. Democratic voters are now more
                  likely to be critical of Israel and its government
                  than they are to be supportive, according to several <a h=
ref=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/21/polls/times-siena-nat=
ional-poll-crosstabs.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">recent</a> <a href=
=3D"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-is=
rael-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/" t=
itle=3D"" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">polls</a>, a monume=
ntal
                  change in American sentiment.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">And while
                  many Democratic officials remain supportive of Israel,
                  next year=E2=80=99s class of congressional Democrats is o=
n
                  track to be more wary about America=E2=80=99s relationshi=
p
                  with Israel than at any other moment since the Jewish
                  state was established after World War II.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  primary triumphs in deep-blue districts of <a href=3D"htt=
ps://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/ny10-primary-lander.html" title=3D=
"" target=3D"_blank">Brad Lander</a>, <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/20=
26/06/23/nyregion/ny7-primary-claire-valdez.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_bla=
nk">Claire Valdez</a>
                  and <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregio=
n/ny13-darializa-avila-chevalier-espaillat.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blan=
k">Darializa Avila
                    Chevalier</a> came after each was endorsed by Mayor
                  Zohran Mamdani of New York, whose advocacy for the
                  Palestinian cause has been integral to his rapid
                  political rise. At a rally for the candidates last
                  week, he called the nation=E2=80=99s leading pro-Israel
                  organization part of a group of =E2=80=9Cmonsters=E2=80=
=9D that he
                  said were too powerful in American politics.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">At Ms.
                  Avila Chevalier=E2=80=99s victory party on Tuesday night =
in
                  Harlem, supporters chanted =E2=80=9Cfree Palestine=E2=80=
=9D while she
                  pushed her campaign=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cbabies, not bombs=
=E2=80=9D slogan. She
                  suggested in her victory speech that her win
                  represented a shift in how Democrats in New York would
                  operate.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CToday, we
                  make it clear: The politics of the past ends today,=E2=80=
=9D
                  she said.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Super PACs
                  allied with the American Israel Public Affairs
                  Committee, the pro-Israel group, have spent huge
                  amounts of money on this year=E2=80=99s midterm elections=
 to
                  try to turn the tide in voter opinion. The
                  organization has had some victories, saying in a
                  statement on Tuesday night that 180 Democrats and
                  Republicans it had endorsed had advanced to the
                  November election. The group congratulated <a href=3D"htt=
ps://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/maryland-5th-district-democrati=
c-primary.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">a Maryland House
                    candidate</a> its allied super PAC spent millions
                  backing and said this would =E2=80=9Censure this seat rem=
ains
                  represented by pro-Israel leadership.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">But
                  despite those successes, AIPAC has largely been on the
                  defensive.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Polls show
                  that support for Israel among Democrats has sharply
                  and steadily eroded since the Hamas-led terrorist
                  attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel=E2=80=99s subsequent
                  destruction of most of Gaza. A <a href=3D"https://www.nyt=
imes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/poll-democrats-midterms-house-senate.html" =
title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">New York Times/Siena
                    survey</a> this spring found that 60 percent of
                  Democratic supporters said they were more sympathetic
                  to Palestinians than Israelis, compared with 15
                  percent who were more supportive of Israel.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99re
                  seeing more and more Democrats making it clear that we
                  should provide no U.S. taxpayer support to the
                  government of Israel,=E2=80=9D Senator Chris Van Hollen o=
f
                  Maryland said in an interview on Tuesday. Next year,
                  he added, =E2=80=9CI hope we will see a Congress that doe=
sn=E2=80=99t
                  provide reflexive unconditional support to the
                  government of Israel.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Perhaps
                  the most significant of the New York races pitted
                  Representative Dan Goldman, a two-term Democrat from
                  Brooklyn, against Mr. Lander, the former New York City
                  comptroller, who staked his campaign on opposing Mr.
                  Goldman for being insufficiently critical of Israel.</fon=
t></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div> </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The race
                  between the two men, Jews who both describe themselves
                  as liberal Zionists, symbolized how Democratic voters,
                  especially younger ones, have shifted away from
                  support for Israel.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">But
                  perhaps the most outspoken anti-Israel Democratic
                  candidate who won in New York City, Ms. Avila
                  Chevalier, defeated Representative Adriano Espaillat,
                  who has been a steadfast supporter of Israel in his
                  decade in Congress. Ms. Avila Chevalier spoke often of
                  having lived in the West Bank and <a href=3D"https://www.=
cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/avila-chevalier-attended-oct-8-pro-pale=
stinian-rally-lander-condemned/413981/" title=3D"" rel=3D"noopener noreferr=
er" target=3D"_blank">attended a rally</a> on Oct.
                  8, 2023, that was widely criticized for featuring
                  speakers who appeared to justify the attacks a day
                  earlier.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Like Mr.
                  Lander and Ms. Valdez, Ms. Avila Chevalier is now the
                  Democratic nominee in a solidly blue House district
                  and is a heavy favorite to wind up in Congress come
                  January.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
             =20
                <div><br>
                  <div>
                    <div style=3D"height:auto"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>=
<img alt=3D"Brad Lander smiling and speaking to voters in Brooklyn." src=3D=
"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/24/multimedia/24pol-dems-israel-ht=
gz/24pol-dems-israel-htgz-articleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75&amp;auto=3Dwebp&amp=
;disable=3Dupscale"><u></u></div>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <span>Brad Lander, a former
                    New York City comptroller, easily defeated
                    Representative Dan Goldman of New York in a
                    Democratic primary race that revolved around the
                    politics of Israel.=C2=A0</span><span><span>Credit...</=
span><span><span aria-hidden=3D"false">Angelina Katsanis for The
                        New York Times</span></span></span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The fights
                  in New York became increasingly nasty in the final
                  days of the campaign. A local coffee shop chain <a href=
=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/nyregion/coffee-shop-poetica-dan-gol=
dman-israel.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">wrote on social
                    media that Mr. Goldman</a>, who is critical of
                  Israel=E2=80=99s government but has opposed banning aid t=
o the
                  country, was not welcome because it did not serve
                  =E2=80=9Cgenocide enablers.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <h2 id=3D"m_2970802988870275832link-166d77b6">Pitched
                Midterm Battles Over Israel</h2>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The main
                  super PAC tied to AIPAC, the United Democracy Project,
                  has spent more than $25 million so far this year, in
                  addition to at least $5 million it has funneled to
                  create new super PACs.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">That sum
                  may be just a fraction of what is to come. The group
                  started the year with more than $96 million, making it
                  one of the best-funded PACs in the country.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Its most
                  prominent spending battles so far have been in New
                  Jersey and Illinois. But Israel also became a driving
                  issue in several House primaries in California.</font></p=
>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  results have been mixed. In the Chicago suburbs,
                  Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Ill., <a href=3D"http=
s://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/elections/illinois-9th-district-congress-=
democratic-primary-biss.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">won a House prim=
ary</a>
                  after explicitly attacking AIPAC. The group spent $7
                  million in the race, mostly aimed at defeating Mr.
                  Biss, who is Jewish. But in the final days of the
                  primary, when it became clearer that a candidate even
                  more critical of Israel than Mr. Biss could win, the
                  super PAC dialed <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/=
03/19/us/elections/aipac-pro-israel-lobby-midterms.html" title=3D"" target=
=3D"_blank">back its attacks on
                    him</a>.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
             =20
                <div><br>
                  <div>
                    <div style=3D"height:auto"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>=
<img alt=3D"Daniel Biss speaking during a debate in February in Chicago." s=
rc=3D"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/24/multimedia/24pol-dems-isra=
el-mtbp/24pol-dems-israel-mtbp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75&amp;auto=3Dweb=
p&amp;disable=3Dupscale"><u></u></div>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <span>Daniel Biss won a
                    Democratic House primary in Illinois after
                    explicitly denouncing AIPAC, drawing attack ads
                    against him.</span><span><span>=C2=A0Credit...</span><s=
pan><span aria-hidden=3D"false">Joshua Lott for The New York
                        Times</span></span></span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">In New
                  Jersey, the AIPAC-tied super PAC targeted Tom
                  Malinowski, a popular former congressman who supported
                  more restrictions on aid to Israel. But in an
                  embarrassing turn for AIPAC, Analilia Mejia, a
                  progressive organizer who was loudly critical of
                  Israel, beat him in the special election and then won
                  a later primary.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">AIPAC has
                  won victories, too. <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/20=
26/03/18/us/elections/house-primaries-aipac-allies-illinois.html" title=3D"=
" target=3D"_blank">Two of its preferred
                    candidates</a> in Illinois won crowded primaries,
                  even as another anti-AIPAC Democrat won in a Chicago
                  district.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">In
                  Washington, defending Israel has fallen out of favor
                  among many congressional Democrats, with a large
                  majority of senators who caucus with the party <a href=3D=
"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/senate-israel-arms-vote-ira=
n-war.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">voting this year to
                    block some U.S. arms sales to Israel</a>.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CDo I
                  think the Overton window on Israel has shifted more in
                  the last six months than my entire career?=E2=80=9D said =
Amy
                  Rutkin, the longtime chief of staff to Representative
                  Jerrold Nadler of New York, the longest-serving Jewish
                  Democrat in the House, who is retiring. =E2=80=9CIt surel=
y,
                  absolutely has.=E2=80=9D</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The shift
                  is part of a generational change after the retirements
                  of longtime Democratic leaders like former Speaker
                  Nancy Pelosi and Representative Steny H. Hoyer of
                  Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in the House,
                  both of whom are stalwart supporters of Israel.
                  Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the
                  minority leader, is also a backer of Israel.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">But among
                  Democratic voters, support for Israel has crumbled.
                  And even House Democrats who are broadly supportive of
                  Israel are highly critical of Benjamin Netanyahu, the
                  country=E2=80=99s prime minister. Few enthusiastically su=
pport
                  the right-wing Israeli government, and many are openly
                  counting down until elections there, which are
                  scheduled for October.</font></p>
              <h2 id=3D"m_2970802988870275832link-3481a652">Shifting
                Winds in New York</h2>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  Democratic shift on Israel has been particularly
                  notable in New York, home to the country=E2=80=99s larges=
t
                  Jewish population and a mayor who has frequently
                  focused on the plight of Palestinians.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">=E2=80=9CThe
                  monsters that we are up against, they take many
                  different forms,=E2=80=9D Mr. Mamdani said at a recent ra=
lly
                  for his endorsed candidates, before adding that AIPAC
                  believed =E2=80=9Cthe only thing more frightening than
                  democracy being allowed to run its course is an end to
                  genocide and Netanyahu=E2=80=99s wars.=E2=80=9D</font></p=
>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Many
                  Jewish leaders and groups criticized the remarks,
                  arguing that they echoed antisemitic tropes at a time
                  of increased hate crimes targeting Jews.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
             =20
                <div><br>
                  <div>
                    <div style=3D"height:auto"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>=
<img alt=3D"Claire Valdez, center left, clapping alongside Zohran Mamdani a=
s other supporters hold signs for her campaign around them." src=3D"https:/=
/static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/24/multimedia/24pol-dems-israel-cglj/24pol=
-dems-israel-cglj-articleLarge.jpg?quality=3D75&amp;auto=3Dwebp&amp;disable=
=3Dupscale"><u></u></div>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <span>Claire Valdez, center
                    left, who was also backed by Mr. Mamdani, won her
                    Democratic primary for an open seat in New York
                    City.</span><span><span>=C2=A0Credit...</span><span><sp=
an aria-hidden=3D"false">Ryan Murphy for The New York
                        Times</span></span></span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">One of the
                  candidates the mayor backed, Ms. Avila Chevalier,
                  defeated Mr. Espaillat, the chairman of the
                  Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was the only
                  candidate in New York who was explicitly backed by
                  AIPAC=E2=80=99s super PAC, <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes=
.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/new-york-primary-campaign-spending.html" title=3D"=
" target=3D"_blank">which transferred
                    money to a separate group that supported him</a>.</font=
></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">In the
                  10th Congressional District, which includes Lower
                  Manhattan and a large area of Brooklyn and is one of
                  the most Jewish districts in the country, Mr. Goldman,
                  the Brooklyn Democrat, frequently argued that a focus
                  on foreign policy was misplaced given voters=E2=80=99 dom=
estic
                  priorities. Those arguments fell flat: He lost badly,
                  trailing late Tuesday by <a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.c=
om/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-10-primary.html"=
 title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">more than 30
                    percentage points</a>.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">Several
                  Jewish Democrats who are most likely heading to the
                  House, including Mr. Lander and Mr. Biss, have taken a
                  more antagonistic tone toward the current Israeli
                  government. But whether they will take radically
                  different approaches to policy remains to be seen.</font>=
</p>
              <h2 id=3D"m_2970802988870275832link-513184d4">AIPAC
                as a Litmus Test</h2>
              <p><font size=3D"4">For
                  decades, AIPAC was the leading voice of a bipartisan
                  congressional consensus on the importance of the
                  U.S.-Israel alliance. Now, many Democrats in contested
                  primaries want nothing to do with it.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  organization has become a symbol of dark money,
                  alongside organizations backing the cryptocurrency and
                  artificial intelligence industries. And all three
                  interest groups are spending money on many of the same
                  races.</font></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <p><font size=3D"4">None of
                  the advertisements paid for by the AIPAC super PAC
                  even mention Israel, focusing instead on top-polling
                  issues in each area.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">In
                  Maryland, the super PAC spent more than $5 million to
                  back Adrian Boafo, a state legislator, in the primary
                  to replace Mr. Hoyer. The ads focused on Mr. Boafo=E2=80=
=99s
                  biography and his accomplishments in Annapolis.
                  Cryptocurrency interests spent an additional $3.4
                  million to back Mr. Boafo, according to AdImpact, a
                  media tracking firm. He ended up <a href=3D"https://www.n=
ytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-maryland-us-house-5-primar=
y.html" title=3D"" target=3D"_blank">finishing well ahead</a>
                  of a crowded Democratic field.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The next
                  Democratic primaries to revolve around Israel will
                  come in August, when Minnesota, Michigan and other
                  states are holding competitive intraparty contests.</font=
></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">At <a href=3D"https://www.pbs.org/video/d=
fl-primary-us-senate-debate-sefhgt/" title=3D"" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer"=
 target=3D"_blank">a Democratic primary debate
                    for Senate last week in Minnesota</a>, Lt. Gov.
                  Peggy Flanagan declared that =E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t tak=
e AIPAC money
                  because my values don=E2=80=99t align with AIPAC.=E2=80=
=9D Her
                  opponent, Representative Angie Craig, who has been
                  endorsed by AIPAC in the past, replied that she had
                  taken =E2=80=9Cnot one penny=E2=80=9D from the group and =
called for
                  Mr. Netanyahu to lose his re-election bid in October.</fo=
nt></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The most
                  divisive race, however, will be in Michigan, which has
                  large Jewish and Muslim populations.</font></p>
              <p><font size=3D"4">The
                  Democratic Senate primary there includes
                  Representative Haley Stevens, a staunch backer of
                  Israel, and Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive public
                  health official who has called Israel=E2=80=99s actions a
                  genocide and opposes any military aid to the country.
                  A third candidate, State Senator Mallory McMorrow, has
                  tried to take a middle path on Israel, but is
                  struggling in the polls.</font></p></div></div></div></di=
v></div>
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-international-student-exclusion-us-stem

Key Takeaways

   - The US government has taken several steps since 2025 to restrict
   international students studying at US universities. Latest available dat=
a
   indicate that student visa issuance is about one-third below normal.
   - This decline will affect the high-skill US workforce educated in
   science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). For example, 3=
5
   percent of all STEM workers with a PhD are foreign-born and US-trained.
   With few exceptions, they came as international students.
   - A sustained one-third reduction in US STEM graduates from abroad would
   shrink the high-skill STEM workforce by 6.2 percent overall and 11.5
   percent at the PhD level.
   - Given the key role of STEM workers in US innovation, entrepreneurship,
   and productivity growth, that decline would cut annual US real GDP by $2=
40
   billion to $481 billion within a decade=E2=80=94a loss the size of a mid=
-sized US
   state like Wisconsin or Utah.

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Restrictive US government policies since 2025 have reduced international
student enrollment in US universities and made it harder for foreign
graduates to work in the United States. This shift, if sustained, would
hurt the US economy, slowing innovation and GDP growth, because foreign
students are a key source of US STEM workforce talent. The authors
recommend reforming US policies on student visas, work authorization, and
green card processing to avert these losses.

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fect the high-skill US workforce educated in science, technology, engineeri=
ng, and mathematics (STEM). For example, 35 percent of all STEM workers wit=
h a PhD are foreign-born and US-trained. With few exceptions, they came as =
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ld shrink the high-skill STEM workforce by 6.2 percent overall and 11.5 per=
cent at the PhD level.</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0p=
x">Given the key role of STEM workers in US innovation, entrepreneurship, a=
nd productivity growth, that decline would cut annual US real GDP by $240 b=
illion to $481 billion within a decade=E2=80=94a loss the size of a mid-siz=
ed US state like Wisconsin or Utah.</li></ul></div></div></div><div class=
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n&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Serif&quot;,serif;font-size:1.125rem;margin:0px">Restr=
ictive US government policies since 2025 have reduced international student=
 enrollment in US universities and made it harder for foreign graduates to =
work in the United States. This shift, if sustained, would hurt the US econ=
omy, slowing innovation and GDP growth, because foreign students are a key =
source of US STEM workforce talent. The authors recommend reforming US poli=
cies on student visas, work authorization, and green card processing to ave=
rt these losses.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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