March 17, 2020
37: Only 37 percent of Americans have a good or great deal of trust in what they're hearing from President Trump about coronavirus, according to a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll.
1.2 billion: Apple has been hit with a whopping $1.2 billion fine from a French antitrust watchdog, the largest fine of its kind that France has ever imposed. The French regulator claims that the tech giant conspired with two retail resellers to set prices and was "abusively exploiting" distributors.
50: After a fierce attack on one of its military posts by members of the Boko Haram militia, Niger's government said it killed 50 of the group's fighters in retaliatory strikes. In recent years Boko Haram has expanded well beyond its home country of Nigeria, staging attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
10: A mere ten percent of Russians say that Western sanctions are a problem for them or their families, the lowest mark on record. We aren't sure what the figure would be for Putin cronies who are targeted specifically by the sanctions, but by the looks of it, EU and US restrictions haven't changed the Kremlin's foreign policy much over the past 6 years.
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In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer breaks down the escalating US-Israel war with Iran and its ripple effects on global markets and supply chains.
As missiles fly and oil prices soar, the Iran war is exposing another major resource vulnerability in the Middle East: water. Fresh water has been a scarce commodity in a region defined by a dry climate and low rainfall, but attacks on the region’s desalination plants, which convert seawater into drinking water, threaten to open a new front.
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