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Post #505: Cuba’s Fate Should Not be in US Hands

Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply…

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Post #504: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be on Iran

As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war…

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Post #503: Why the US-Iran Talks Failed

The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides…

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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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Post #450-2: The Trump-Musk Outlaw Regime–The Scorecard So Far

17 Mar 202517 Mar 2025
(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…
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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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