Oliver Boyd-Barrett
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- Sep 14, 2026
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End Times for the Petrodollar (1) (opens the original)
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As best as I now understand the matter, the Houthis have not captured or occupied any actual sovereign Saudi Arabian territory, but they have made major territorial gains against their Saudi-backed and equipped Yemeni opponents within Yemen over the past two weeks, seizing strategic islands and ports along the Red Sea coast. So the situation has to be seen in terms of a continuance of a civil war (in which one party relies heavily on Saudi Arabia, and the other is a close ally but certainly not
OLIVER BOYD DISPATCHES: Icons of Bad Faith and Incompetence, and much more (opens the original)
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Kushner and Witkoff: "They are great negotiators".— Donald Trump Timing may be all important today, and this posting can be no more than a draft. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow earlier today, September 5th, with a reported aim of reviving negotiations over Ukraine. The envoys were met at the airport on Saturday by the Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, a businessman best known for his participation in talks on potential US-Russian economic and business opport
Missile Anxieties and Aspirations Inside a Corrupt Administration Amidst the Fall of (Western) Empire (opens the original)
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“The skies are open and Russia now has free rein to destroy anything it wants with its vast and growing arsenal of cruise and ballistic missiles. We are moving into the end game as Ukraine is increasingly defenseless against the escalating Russian onslaught. And winter is coming. That will be harsher than last year’s already punishing campaign that left residents living in apartments where temperatures dropped to -10°C or less.” In a separate article today, Aris (IntelliNews) records that Russia
Gloves Off, Kind Of (opens the original)
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But what matters at the end of the day, as always, are the deeds, and sometimes, but not always, words as indicative of potential deeds. Sergei Karaganov (right) with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) We have heard a lot recently from Putin’s spokesman, Peskov, and others, that might lead one to expect that Russia is about to upgrade the Special Military Operation (SMO) to something else lying between an anti-terrorist operation to an all-out war. We have even heard Putin, in his recent re
Why Would Ansarallah Blockade the Red Sea? Here’s Why. (opens the original)
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Yemen has achieved some profound strikes on Saudi Arabia, most recently hitting its ultra-modern Aramco oil facilities. Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a coordinated retaliatory strike using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and armed drones against Saudi Aramco facilities in the coastal cities of Jazan and Yanbu. Aramco is primarily owned by the Government of Saudi Arabia with the majority stake managed through the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and a small percentage traded publicly on the Tad
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