By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Trump keeps saying the Iran war will end soon. On 18 September he repeated it. He also swore Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. He promised gas prices will fall back, maybe lower still, once the shooting stops. At the same time he confirmed the United States is […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Voting for Russia’s ninth State Duma began at 8 a.m. local time on 18 September in Kamchatka Krai and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. This is the first nationwide parliamentary election since the 2022 special military operation in Ukraine. The calendar is short and deliberate. Ballots run through 20 September, […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Trump dialed Jensen Huang on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on 14 September. He demanded the call go on speaker. Huang fumbled with the phone. Trump joked that the man who builds the world’s most complex chips could not put him on speakerphone. The room laughed. […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Russia just drew a hard line and left a door ajar at the same time. Putin is in India for the eighteenth BRICS summit. From that platform he restated the red line on European troops in Ukraine and offered unconditional three-party talks. The combination is deliberate. One path is […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Europe keeps warning about over-reliance on American security infrastructure. Britain is doing the opposite. The UK has now spent nearly forty million dollars on SpaceX satellite services. It is the first country outside the United States to confirm public use of Starshield, the military version of the network. That […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – The tariffs are live. Canada is collecting on 28 billion Canadian dollars of American goods starting today. Steel, aluminum, textiles, stoves and hundreds of other categories now carry the extra duty. This is Ottawa’s answer to the American 50 percent tariffs. The relationship has not looked this raw in […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Putin just ordered a three-day pause on strikes against Kyiv. The clock started at midnight on 5 September. At the same moment a U.S. plane carrying Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner entered Russian airspace. A convoy waited at Vnukovo. This is not coincidence. It is the first visible trade […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Russia stopped waiting for darkness. From 27 August the strikes arrive at any hour. Jet-powered drones move three times faster than the old propeller models. Sirens sound through breakfast and midnight. The goal is not one big knockout. It is steady exhaustion of people who still have to live […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Iceland voted on whether to reopen talks with the European Union. The count is tight. Ballots are still moving by plane, boat and car from remote towns and villages. Officials say a reliable result may not arrive until noon on 30 August local time. The issues that drove voters […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – A year ago the United States and the European Union stepped back from a full trade clash. The pause never became peace. In July 2025 President Trump and European Commission President von der Leyen met at Turnberry in Scotland. They struck a new trade framework. On 21 August they […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Iran just handed the world a carefully worded pause on the Strait of Hormuz and called it progress. The statement from Tehran is clear. No warships. Only commercial traffic. The route in runs through Iranian waters. The route out runs through Oman and Iranian waters. That is the temporary […]
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Military pressure failed to force a breakthrough. After nearly six months of conflict the United States shifted to a full economic war. On August 24 Treasury Secretary Bessent stood in Washington and announced new measures. He promised to cut every Iranian economic lifeline until the country is completely isolated. […]