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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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9Mar 2026
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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 #466: The Failure to “Obliterate” Iran’s Nuclear Sites

27 Jun 2025
Damage Control             President Trump’s childish and out-of-touch message following US strikes on Iran is now, properly, a matter of contention. He said: “Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration…
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Post #465: It’s Trump’s War Now

22 Jun 202522 Jun 2025
            President Trump announced that the US had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Then he messaged that "now is the time for peace." No, it is time for war. No…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…

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