Tag archives for USA
Happy Trump’s Kampf
I don’t read the NYT regularly, mostly visiting it via links from newsletters, but yesterday morning I’ve been informed of his interview with the NYT. Here's what you might be…
The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world
The seizure of the oil tanker formerly known as the Bella 1, and now called Marinera, after Russia granted it the right to display the flag of the Russian Federation,…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
A premonition that aged very well: this is not about drugs!
On Dec. 11, Sky's data and economics editor Ed Conway explained The real reason Venezuela matters. “And there's one big reason why America is so interested.” It was almost a…
Beware of what you do: you can be tried in the US even if you never set foot there!
This is my third post related to the crisis in Venezuela, and the shortest one on that matter. As usual, I defend the principles of justice and freedom, not some…
Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
I stumbled upon a video excerpt on X, and I wondered whether it's authentic or AI-generated. I googled “Laura J. Richardson lithium triangle” and Google's AI Overview spitted this: General…
Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere
Here’s the talk I just had with Grok: Me: In the US, like in most countries, courts consider the legality of the evidence submitted, and if such evidence was warrantless…
România, Europa și lumea în 3 scurtissime idei
❶ Neparticipare, blocaj, sabotaj din partea a patru judecători ai CCR pe care nu-i spânzură nimeni, căci nu permite legea. V-am spus eu că onor CCR trebuie desființată, Constituția reformată,…
Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez)
În loc ca cenzura să fie interzisă în UE, aceasta este de fapt încurajată. Vezi de pildă Directiva (UE) 2019/790 a Parlamentului European și a Consiliului din 17 aprilie 2019…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
Understanding Israel, Trump, and the “negotiations with Iran”
The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), defines and designates as nuclear-weapon states those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device…
Thoughts about BRICS+, China, and Europe—and the US
I'm by no means an analyst of any kind, but I happen to have had a few thoughts, and I decided to put them down. They're not phrased that well,…
Bibi + Donald + Iran = 💣
I initially wanted to update my previous short post, Israel is the land of love, either at its end, or through comments, but I decided to behave more traditionally and…
I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
Triggered by the current events in LA, but not mentioning anything about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, I asked a couple of chatbots if they see a logical solution…
It’s not the liberal order that we’re losing, and the decline didn’t start with Trump
By pure chance, I ran over some older contributions to Foreign Affairs by Graham Allison, Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. I'll just paste here some excerpts, without…
The Three Shitheads (and us)
We, Europeans, are cocksuckers. We sucked Putin’s dick (and we still do, as the EU still imports some gas from Russia). We suck Netanyahu’s dick, because criticizing Israel is seen…