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Persian Gulf

Extension of the Indian Ocean

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Nov 18, 2025
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Edward cayce prophecy 2025 - 2026

Edgar Cayce (often styled “The Sleeping Prophet”) made many broadly framed predictions about geophysical change, world power shifts, and spiritual evolution; advocates and institutions preserving his ...

Dec 11, 2025
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What precedent cases illustrate legal outcomes following tanker seizures?

U.S. forces seized a large oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Dec. 10, 2025 — identified by multiple outlets as the VLCC Skipper — after a federal seizure warrant tied the ship to prior sanctions and...

Oct 25, 2025
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How did Donald Trump's business dealings influence his presidential decisions?

Donald Trump’s presidential decisions intersected repeatedly with his family’s expanding business ventures, most notably in real estate and newly publicized cryptocurrency enterprises that critics say...

Jan 25, 2026

Which U.S. military operations did the Trump administration expand, continue, or withdraw from between 2017 and 2021?

simultaneously expanded certain outward-facing footprints and high‑profile capabilities, continued long‑running counterterrorism and regional missions, and pursued selective withdrawals and drawdowns—...

Jan 18, 2026

What classified or rotational deployments (e.g., Special Operations, maritime strike groups) does the US maintain worldwide?

The United States maintains a dense mix of permanent bases, rotational forces, naval strike groups, and acknowledged—but often classified—special operations and intelligence missions across the globe;...

Jan 18, 2026

What concrete incentives did the UAE and Bahrain receive in exchange for normalizing with Israel under the Abraham Accords?

The UAE and Bahrain received a mix of concrete diplomatic, security and economic incentives in return for formal normalization with Israel under the Abraham Accords: U.S. political backing (including ...

Jan 3, 2026

Was the Iraq war about oil

The Iraq War cannot be reduced to a single cause: oil was a major strategic factor that shaped incentives, planning and post-invasion policy, but it operated alongside security, ideological and politi...

Dec 6, 2025

What is Qatar

Qatar is a small, wealthy independent emirate on the Persian Gulf whose wealth comes chiefly from vast petroleum and natural‑gas reserves and whose population is overwhelmingly migrant — over 90% acco...

Dec 2, 2025

Have there been any successful lawsuits by Congress against the President for War Powers Act violations?

Congress has repeatedly sued or attempted to use the War Powers Resolution to check presidents, but available sources show no instance in which Congress (or a majority of its members acting through th...