BLOG Post #490: The United States is an International Lawbreaker 6 Jan 2026 The illegality of US intervention in Venezuela has been amply cited with reference to its attacks on alleged drug boats, its declaration of an oil blockade, and its kidnapping of…
APB… APB: Regime Change in Venezuela 3 Jan 20264 Jan 2026 America First; Who's Next? The US has overthrown the Maduro regime in Venezuela, captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, and occupied the country. Continuing a long history of US interventions in…
BLOG… Post #489: The Year in Review 2 Jan 20262 Jan 2026 A podcast of this post is available at https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-916 The reelection of Donald J. Trump is clearly the most notable event of 2025. We thought we knew him and what…
BLOG Post #487: The National Security Strategy Paper on China 18 Dec 2025 The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper released this month is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. But amidst the bluster about…
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 #480: Gunboat Diplomacy in the Caribbean 27 Oct 2025 Disproportionate Force, Hidden Motives The Trump administration has now conducted ten known strikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts that supposedly carry drugs destined for the US. The…
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 #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…
BLOG 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…
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 #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…
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…
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