Zineb Riboua (@zriboua)

Here are some projects US is pushing, working on, or already locked in to counter China. Idea that this administration is "soft on Xi Jinping" or that "US is in decline" is incredibly misleading 🧵...

My latest Iran's Economy is Collapsing Understanding the IRGC's Dilemma The IRGC likes to boast about its immunity to external pressure, but the economic situation reveals an organization that is disoriented, operating a model so rigid and so dependent on conditions that no longer exist that it ha...

My latest China's Machinery in Iran Meets Washington's Economic Fury Understanding the US Treasury's latest sanctions For years, the IRGC sustained itself through shell companies, rotating vessel identities, and shadow banking corridors that kept oil revenue flowing far from formal financial chann...

A Syrian artist living in Berlin posted a video now trending across Germany. Germany welcomed Syrian refugees during and after the civil war and have no colonial past in Syria to atone for. What do they get in return? Resentment, a Third-Worldist rant basically about Western colonizers as eternal ...