Monday, 24 August 2026

Bessent implies the US will directly target China and Gulf states,

 https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2091724446155559008

Arnaud Bertrand
The same Bessent who deluded himself into thinking back in April 2025 that all countries would join the US in a "grand economic encirclement" of China (bloomberg.com/news/newslette), only to fold a few weeks later because no-one joined. Now he's recycling the same script against Iran and it's even more deluded because it requires the cooperation of China - the very country he tried and failed to isolate last year - and China is obviously refusing. You couldn't make this up.
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The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent announces the US is launching "the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary" against Iran, per FT. Bessent implies the US will directly target China and Gulf states, saying "any nation that serves as a

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2091724446155559008

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