BLOG Post #481: No Big Deal: The Trump-Xi Meeting in Korea 3 Nov 2025 Promises, Promises The much-awaited meeting in Korea between Pres. Trump and Pres. Xi Jinping promised—according to Trump—a major trade deal. The Chinese seemed prepared to offer much less. In remarks…
BLOG Post #480: Gunboat Diplomacy in the Caribbean 27 Oct 2025 Disproportionate Force, Hidden Motives The Trump administration has now conducted ten known strikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts that supposedly carry drugs destined for the US. The…
BLOG Post #479: A Plan for Halting the Ukraine War 17 Oct 2025 Separating the Practical from the Ideal Intractable conflicts are wars without end, and Russia’s war with Ukraine seems to fit the bill. Now three and a half years old, the…
BLOG Post #478: The Gaza War May End, but Peace Remains Elusive 9 Oct 2025 Some Questions Hamas has accepted Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Gaza war. Under the plan, Hamas, in exchange for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans in…
BLOG Post #477: Trump’s Dangerous Distortion of National Security 1 Oct 20252 Oct 2025 During a large part of the post-World War II history of American foreign policy, national security meant international security—that is, defense of the US homeland was believed to require a…
BLOG Post #476: Playing Trump 20 Sep 202521 Sep 2025 One cannot examine the wars in Ukraine and Gaza without noticing certain parallels. First and foremost are the human and economic costs of aggression. Those costs are staggering, and how…
BLOG Post #475: Trump Upends the International Economic Order 11 Sep 2025 Protectionism by Another Name Tariff hikes across the board, political interference through trade threats, pressure on US multinational corporations, supply chain disruptions—these are among the ways the Trump administration is…
BLOG Post #474: Trump, Drugs, and War 6 Sep 2025 Murder License Issued The sinking of a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela has turned out to have ominous political and military implications. President Trump has taken the entirely illegal…
BLOG Post #473: A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Inconceivable 31 Aug 2025 Four US presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. Donald Trump is determined to be the fifth recipient. He has…
BLOG Post #472: Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India 23 Aug 2025 Friends No More In 2019, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi paraded their bromance with a 50,000-person “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston. They followed that up with a “Namaste Trump” 100,000-person…
BLOG Post #471: Sellout: The Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska 16 Aug 202516 Aug 2025 The Trump Turnabout Pres. Trump emerged from a much shorter meeting than expected with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage to say there was “no deal” but an “extremely productive” meeting…
BLOG Post #470: Will the US Invade Mexico? 9 Aug 20259 Aug 2025 The Limits of Friendship Donald Trump is proving time and again to foreign leaders that counting on friendly relations is senseless. Most recently, India, Canada, Ukraine, and Brazil discovered that,…
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