The Strait of Hormuz theme
Still looks a bit like it will end with China bombing the Western world with cheap electric cars.
Pentagon: The war will soon cost 27 billion euros. The cost of the war in Iran is approaching around 27 billion euros, reports the U.S. Department of Defense according to AFP.
The cost is 3.7 billion euros higher than the preliminary price tag presented by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth two weeks ago. According to Pentagon Chief Financial Officer Jules Hurst, the increased costs are partly due to the need to repair and replace equipment. See the article on SVT Nyheter.
Trump: "Will have a long talk with China's president about the Iran war" U.S. President Donald Trump says that he plans to have a long conversation with China's President Xi Jinping about the war in Iran during his upcoming trip to China this week. – I don’t think we need any help with Iran. We will win it one way or another, he says according to CNN.
At the same time, Trump says that he doesn’t think he needs Xi’s help and that he has a lot of things to discuss with Xi, but that he would not say that "Iran is one of them." See the article on SVT Nyheter.