BLOG Post #464: Trump and Netanyahu Play “Good Cop, Bad Cop” with Iran 13 Jun 202513 Jun 2025 Playing the Game In the lead-up to Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its military leadership, Pres. Trump posed as a peacemaker and concerned bystander. He said that…
BLOG Post #463: The Trump-Xi Conversation: One Step in a Long March 7 Jun 20258 Jul 2025 President Trump finally got his wish for a conversation with Xi Jinping. Or perhaps I should say that President Xi granted Trump an audience. The Chinese leader has no doubt…
BLOG Post #462: Donald in Arabia 16 May 202515 May 2025 A Golden Age “In the United States, we’ve announced the golden age of America,” Trump said at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh. “And with the help of the people…
BLOG Post #461: In Trump’s Trade War, It’s Advantage China 9 May 202516 May 2025 Without Rhyme or Reason “We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities.…
BLOG… Post #460: Assessing the US-Iran Nuclear Talks 27 Apr 202527 Apr 2025 No Attack--For Now The New York Times reported April 16 that the Trump administration has decided not to approve an attack on Iran for now. Apparently, those in the administration…
BLOG Post #459: Trump–Four Disgraceful Acts 19 Apr 2025 Act 1: US and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man No disgraceful act of the Trump administration is more dangerous than its denial of due process of law, judicial…
BLOG Post #458: Tariff Delusions 11 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 Mindless Tariffs It takes a certain kind of person who celebrates when something occurs that she had predicted would not happen. Likewise, it takes a certain kind of person who…
BLOG Post #457: Trump’s Crazy Trade War 4 Apr 20256 Apr 2025 A Scatter Gun Approach The Trump tariff shock is going to take a bit of time to sink in, though stock markets worldwide have already sunk. Altogether, sixty countries have…
BLOG Post #456: Embrace Russia, Contain China? A Fool’s Errand 1 Apr 20258 Jul 2025 Trump's China Policy Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the…
BLOG Post #455: Giving Putin All He Wants 24 Mar 2025 Putin’s Real Agenda One thing seems clear to me about these talks: Vladimir Putin is in an enviable position to get what he wants—maybe not all of what he wants,…
BLOG Post #450-2: The Trump-Musk Outlaw Regime–The Scorecard So Far 17 Mar 202530 May 2026 (Note to the Reader: This is a third iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of the Trump administration. Sorry for the length, but the numerous…
BLOG Post #454: The Destructiveness of “America First” Begins at Home 11 Mar 202511 Mar 2025 Trump's Exaggerated Opportunity Donald Trump’s embrace of “America First” represents a dramatic U-turn from the liberal internationalism that Democratic and Republican presidents alike adopted as a foreign policy framework. Free…
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