How goes the Iran War? Depends on who is doing the talking. There is a definite lull, and mediators are active. Oil prices dropped today, with the stock market mixed. Israel President Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting a with Trump tomorrow, then attend the funeral Senator Lindsey Graham in the Capitol . From Time magazine this morning ( billboard below in Teheran ): The Iran and Ukraine wars are merging The wars in Iran and Ukraine have been inextricably linked for some time, both by their belligerents and the military hardware they use. But after this week, the lines between them are even more blurred. For years, Iranian-made Shahed attack drones have rained down on Ukrainian cities. When the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran and those same Shaheds were fired by Tehran at the Gulf, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky stepped in to sell sophisticated drone defense technology that Ukraine had built over the last five years. Russia is Iran’s chief military supplier , and U...
We are scheduled to fly from Honolulu to Seattle in 8 days, then on to Iceland for a few days. Never been there. Then board a cruise to Montreal, with a positioning sail to optimize our chances of seeing the total eclipse of the sun on 12August2026. We'll drop by Greenland for a couple of stops. From Montreal, fly to Vancouver to board another cruise back to Hawaii. So today, the topic is related to cruising. I'll begin first with Hurricane Fausto, now at 85 MPH, centered 900 miles from Hilo, and moving west at 14 MPH. Hurricane force winds extend through a 90-mile eye, with tropical storm-force winds a radius 175 miles out. The good news is that Fausto is expected to weaken and slide by north of the Hawaiian Islands. Next, those ongoing wars. Day 1,613 of the Ukraine-Russia War, and really Day 4,539 days since the Crimea takeover. Today, mostly drone attacks these days, with no peace talk progress. Day 149 of the U.S./Israel vs Iran War f...