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Post #498: Unexpected Gifts: Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War

I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this…

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ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW PUBLICATION

China Inside and Out: Politics and Policies in a Turbulent World (Bloomsbury Academic). THIS BOOK OF FOCUSED READINGS AND DOCUMENTS…

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Post #497: Aggression in Iran

Conduct that Defies Logic, Law, or Sound Purposes As the invasion of Iran grinds on and its boundaries expand, the…

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Post #469: Israel and Genocide

31 Jul 20251 Aug 2025
What is Genocide?             Many scholars and progressives are reluctant to call Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. They will agree that Israel’s behavior is abominable and atrocious but nevertheless falls…
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Post #468: The Gutting of America’s Scientific Research

20 Jul 2025
Once Upon a Time             There was a time not too long ago when American scientists and American research facilities were the envy of the world. In those days, our…
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Post #467: Trump Cedes the Energy Future to China

9 Jul 20259 Jul 2025
Avoiding Dependence But in Vastly Different Ways When it comes to energy planning, China and the US are moving in opposite directions. As the New York Times reported on July…
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8 Jul 20258 Jul 2025
My latest article, "How Trump's Tariffs Are Hurting Americans," has just been published in Global Asia. Here's the link: https://www.globalasia.org/v20no2/cover/how-trumps-tariffs-are-hurting-americans_mel-gurtov

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