Rob Kummer

I’ve been banging the drum on this for weeks. Taiwan will go into a blackout soon.

Yup! In my high school, the day after 9/11 all the Muslims were cheering and celebrating. It was the day I realised we have a HUGE problem. Little 15 year old me was bewildered why kids were chanting ‘death to the West’ like demons.

From the last frames of the F-35 being hit by Iranian air defense. It looks like some shrapnel got into the air intake and damaged the engine, but the airframe looked largely intact. The important thing here is not whether a F-35 was shot down, it was the fact that Iran's air defense was able to detect, track, lock onto and shoot and damage a F-35. This alone is a form of deterrence, forcing the US to continue using expensive standoff munitions with their non-stealth aircraft and avoid using F-35 with impunity.

This is how Alsatian language sounds. I found a rare video of football manager Arsène Wenger speaking in his native Alsatian. The former Arsenal manager grew up in a small village of Duttlenheim, where everybody spoke Alsatian, and only learned French in school.

Video footage adds to the growing evidence that it was the US which hit a school in southern Iran on the first day of the attacks (February 28). 175 people died, most of them young girls. Trump still insists the attack was “done by Iran” but there is no evidence for that. Claims it was the IRGC lack substance. A seven-second video released by investigative group Bellingcat identifies a Tomahawk cruise missile. The US is the only participant in the war known to use Tomahawks.

UN: Taiwan is a province of China

This is a ballsy power play by Trump. Lloyd's of London was the gold standard for maritime insurance policies until just a day or two ago when they started cancelling policies or jacking them up 3-5X. Others insurers followed. That collapsed commercial shipping traffic through Hormuz, which choked oil shipments out of the Middle East. Trump doing this means the DFC has the chance to displace Lloyd's as the big dog in this game, when they have been the lock-in player for many years. It also frees up all the oil that was getting trapped there, heading off shortages and keeping the energy market alive. And why not? It's the American navy that sunk the Iranian ships that were harassing tankers. And the American Navy -- at least for now -- will keep those tankers safe. It's a huge reassurance to allies -- both oil producers and oil consumers -- that our campaign in Iran isn't going to sink their economies. And it allows America to be choosy about traffic in the Strait. It also potentially means billions of dollars in insurance premiums at wartime rates going to America instead of the UK. And those rates are STILL going to be cheaper than what shippers were getting.