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THE WANG REPORT · MORNING EDITION
Saturday, August 22, 2026

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MB Iran gets the toughest sanctions in history, a phrase Treasury keeps in its back pocket for whenever the last toughest sanctions in history didn't quite land. Kyiv takes another barrage while everyone calls it de-escalation season. Hong Kong convicts vigil organizers of subversion, and a bank explains, separately, that the system remains completely fine. Notice how often "fine" needs saying twice.-- MB
MBIran gets sanctioned, Kyiv gets shelled, a dog kills a woman, and a 117-year-old outlives them all, proof that surviving the news cycle was never the hard part, just surviving everything else. *, MB*
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