YouTube Notes:
Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman take questions in their Thursday Update.
This week, CENTCOM began striking IRGC targets inside Iran at noon Eastern Tuesday, after attempted attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American service members. The first exchange of fire in over a month, then this new wave.
And Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, just went with it:
- Operation Economic Outcast, the first direct hit on British offshore;
- London’s Estanica Trading Ltd, designated as owner of the Gambia-flagged tanker TELA, allegedly holding Iranian crude;
- French and Swiss firms are named, too.
Barbara Boyd takes apart the two fronts:
- Kinetic on the IRGC;
- Financial on the City’s oil machinery.
Then, Susan Kokinda weighs in won the fight at home. The administration is pivoting hard to economic messaging:
- Beef, prescriptions, energy, jobs;
- Dallas Midterm is coming fast — if you’re going, we want to hear from you.
- JD Vance took on the progressive rage machine in Michigan.
- Trump met U.S. refiners on expanding capacity now.
Plus: G20 Asheville, Bessent’s growth agenda versus Europe looting “lazy money” — and your questions.