BLOG Post #484: Zelensky’s Predicament 23 Nov 202522 Nov 2025 A Plan for Ukraine Without Ukraine's Consent The US has forged a peace proposal with Russia that, as the French are putting it, amounts to Ukraine’s capitulation. For President Volodymyr…
BLOG… Post#483: Wag the Dog in Venezuela 15 Nov 202514 Nov 2025 Analysis of why countries go to war sometimes argues that leaders are motivated by problems at home. They attack another country to divert attention from an economic crisis, an unlawful…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
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 #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 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG Post #425: Alliance politics in East Asia: More Security or Less? 27 May 202416 Jun 2024 The Biden-Kishida Summit The best thing about diplomacy between government leaders is that it may ease tensions. The worst thing is that it doesn’t resolve the disputes between them, making…
BLOG Post #414: Trump, NATO, and Appeasement 3 Mar 202429 Feb 2024 Appeasement For many years Donald Trump has been out to end US participation in NATO, citing defense costs but actually being keen to appease Vladimir Putin. As some of…
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