BLOG… Post #504: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be on Iran 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s economy has bent but…
BLOG… Post #503: Why the US-Iran Talks Failed 12 Apr 202620 Apr 2026 The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward positions not subject to actual bargaining. On the…
BLOG… Post #502: Trump’s Way of War 10 Apr 2026 Stretching Presidential Power Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president who once fulminated against his predecessors’ penchant for going to…
BLOG… Post #501: Pete Hegseth’s Crusade 5 Apr 2026 “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis would have recognized Pete Hegseth immediately—a Christian nationalist whose…
BLOG… Post #500: No Exit in Iran 27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026 A Hopeless US Proposal Donald Trump thinks a 15-point plan will end the war with Iran. Seems like a hope and a prayer. Predictably, Iran rejected it out of hand…
BLOG… Post #499: Cuba is Trump’s Next Imperial Project 22 Mar 2026 Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he told CNN in an interview March 6: “Cuba is gonna…
BLOG… Post #498: Unexpected Gifts: Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War 14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at…
BLOG… Post #497: Aggression in Iran 7 Mar 2026 Conduct that Defies Logic, Law, or Sound Purposes As the invasion of Iran grinds on and its boundaries expand, the House and Senate have rejected resolutions that would bring the…
BLOG… Post #495: Trumped on Tariffs 23 Feb 2026 Reacting to Defeat Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just got squashed. The Supreme Court on February 20 denied, by a 6-3 decision, the Trump administration’s power to impose tariffs under the…
BLOG… Post #494: Bored of Peace 20 Feb 202622 Feb 2026 A Board Like None Other Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a vanity project, putting his name and image all over Washington (most recently, a banner of him atop…
BLOG… Post #493: Purges in the Chinese Military 15 Feb 2026 The Anti-Corruption Campaign China’s purge of Gen. Zhang Youxia, long considered a confidante of Xi Jinping and a vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), and General Liu Zhenli,…
BLOG… Post #489: The Year in Review 2 Jan 20262 Jan 2026 A podcast of this post is available at https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-916 The reelection of Donald J. Trump is clearly the most notable event of 2025. We thought we knew him and what…
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