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Post #487: The National Security Strategy Paper on China

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper released this month is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out…

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APB: US Immigration Policy at a Glance

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Post #486: The US National Security Strategy Paper Puts Europe on Edge

The Trump administration has issued a National Security Strategy (NSS) document that fundamentally transforms US relations with Europe. Traditional closeness…

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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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the Global Citizen Podcasts On Substack

7 Feb 20255 Aug 2025
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: #103: Israel and Genocide https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-db2?r=geodg #102: Trump's…
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Post #449: The Limited Future of the Cease-fire in Gaza

26 Jan 202512 Feb 2025
(Note to Readers: This post first appeared January 26. I'm adding the final section to take account of the most recent developments.) The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of…
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Post #448: Iran’s Weakness, America’s Opportunity?

23 Jan 2025
Iran’s Problem-filled Situation Taking advantage of another’s troubles: That’s the danger Iran faces from the next US administration. Iran’s domestic and international positions have seriously weakened, inviting Donald Trump to…
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Post #447: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 2)

2 Jan 2025
[Note to Readers: In Part 1, I wrote about the big-time donors and loyalists who will populate Trump’s cabinet, inner circle, and ambassadorships. Elon Musk naturally stands out in that…
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Post #446: The Year Past and the Year Ahead

26 Dec 2024
The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very much like that for 2024—and probably for some years afterward. It includes global warming and related environmental crises; US-China tensions; challenges to…
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Post #445: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 1)

21 Dec 2024
The List Donald Trump has promised to go after enemies of the people, and will seek revenge against a list of individuals and organizations. But we the people have our…
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Post #444: The Collapse of Syria’s Dictatorship

9 Dec 2024
The Regime’s End They’re celebrating in the streets in Damascus. In a collapse as stunning and swift as that of the Soviet Union, the twenty-four years of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship…
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Post #443: Trump and China–The Rocky Road Ahead

22 Nov 2024
Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably developing China-US relationship fits with the common interests…

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