
Washington’s Persian Gulf strategy has become a dependency trap
The U.S. has placed its Gulf partners in a dependency trap, making the region more dangerous while remaining the only power capable of defending them, and Washington must address the cost-exchange asymmetry, reduce the conditionality of its guarantee, or acknowledge that it is as
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UN-designated on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian beekeeper. Pollinators are responsible for a third of global food production — bees punch well above their weight.
National Strawberry Day
The garden strawberry is a hybrid first bred in Brittany, France in the 1750s by crossing a Chilean variety with a North American one. The resulting fruit spread across Europe and eventually produced the modern commercial strawberry. The US now grows 1.4 billion pounds per year, 90% of it in California.