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Trump-Xi Summit: Advantage Xi (opens the original)
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There was a lot of pageantry and sightseeing during the 23-25 September visit to Washington of Xi Jinping. President Trump was a gracious host. There was no substantive progress, however, on the big issues that divide what may be the two most important nations in the world.<source type="image/
President Trump vs the Laws of Nature (opens the original)
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Science is loyal only to the Laws of Nature. This is a dilemma for President Trump who prizes loyalty to himself above all else. His instinctive response is to publicly undermine the legitimacy of science while privately taking advantage of the benefits science bestows. You can see this by (a) his appointment of the unqualified Michael Kratsios as the President’s Science Advisor and (b) his public ambivalence towards scientifically proven vaccines which he then reluctantly admits to taking himse
What Ratcliffe’s Moscow Visit Reveals (opens the original)
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According to the Wall Street Journal of 26 August, CIA Director John Ratcliffe publicly visited Moscow on 25 August to issue a warning to the Kremlin not to attack any NATO countries. The Journal noted that a Russian attack on the Baltic countries was of particular concern to US officials. Lithuania and Latvia lie between Russia proper and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.Lithuania and Latvia, as well as Estonia, have been full member states of NATO since 2004. Per Article 5 of the NATO Treaty
North Korea Snubs President Trump (opens the original)
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Sunday night at 11:04 PM, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” US participation in joint military exercises with South Korea that were set to begin the next day. Explaining his surprise decision, the President wrote that the exercises “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.” (1) On Monday during a meeting with t
Collapse of the President's Middle East Approach (opens the original)
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On Friday, Saudi Arabia rejected President Trump’s pressure to normalize relations with Israel by publicly signing a defense past with Pakistan and Turkey. (1)On Saturday, Iran publicly rejected President Trump’s assertion that a “deal” was close at hand to open the Strait of Hormuz and instead demanded major concessions from Washington including a withdrawal of American troops from the region and a ban on US warships in the Persian Gulf. (2)On Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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