US politics have always been a bi-partisan affair. Two blocks fighting each other without taking into account possible repercussions of their decisions on global geopolitics and markets. The current decisions made by the US Senate put Washington now in the same league as the UK, which finds itself in a political stalemate due to Brexit crisis. At a time that the world is watching a possible show-down in the Persian Gulf, the US Senate, in all its wisdom, has decided to increase US pressure on one of its only remaining allies in the region,…