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…
BLOG Post #453: America in Retreat 1 Mar 2025 An Appalling Display Imagine that during World War II, at the height of Nazi Germany’s blitz of Britain, President Roosevelt invited PM Winston Churchill to Washington and humiliated him with…
BLOG Post #452: The Trump-Zelensky Feud: The Lies Have It 23 Feb 202523 Feb 2025 The Lies Never Stop On February 18, Presidents Trump and Zelensky spoke by phone following US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia that aim at ending the war in Ukraine. Their conversation…
BLOG Post #451: Appeasement in Europe 17 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 Let Europe Do It Munich has again become the symbol of appeasement less than a century after the West sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. This time around, it is the…
BLOG… the Global Citizen Podcasts On Substack 7 Feb 202523 Jun 2026 Global Citizen podcasts are now available on Substack. Please subscribe (it's free) or listen to any podcast at https://melgurtov.substack.com. Here are the latest: #143: Dissecting the US-Iran MOU https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-404?r=geodg #142:…
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