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Checking in on Hormuz (opens the original)
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If you can afford it, please consider supporting my writing by becoming a paid subscriber. Annual subscriptions are currently 30% off!Subscribe nowThings have really quieted down in the Strait of Hormuz over the past few months. Partly this is because there hasn’t been high-intensity conflict, but it’s also because we’ve now become somewhat accustomed to living in a world of $100+/barrel oil and an unsustainably high U.S. military presence in the Middle East. These things may no longer be
Another pointless U.S.-China summit (opens the original)
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If you can afford it, please consider supporting my writing by becoming a paid subscriber. Annual subscriptions are currently 30% off!Subscribe nowLast week, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Washington, D.C. for his third meeting with Donald Trump of the past year. Trump literally rolled out the red carpet for Xi, meeting him as he descended from his plane at Joint Base Andrews - an honor that no American president has afforded to a foreign head of government since 1962. There followed a vas
Trump’s self-defeating imperialism (opens the original)
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The Greenland saga seems to be over for now, with Denmark, Greenland and the United States signing an agreement which brings an end to years of transatlantic tension. In the end, the Trump administration opted to accept a deal that mostly just reaffirms rights that the United States already had in Greenland and formalizes a few that were tacitly understood to exist anyway.
We may not have hit Peak Trump (opens the original)
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I was a bit surprised to read this reporting from Politico under the headline ‘Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Trump?’:Global leaders and diplomats are steeling themselves for Donald Trump’s annual foreign policy blast tomorrow — but the U.S. president is not the dominant figure of a year ago.[…]Trump then was at the height of his powers, and was addressing a group of allies still reeling from the historic schism with
Newsom’s AI play - politics or public interest? (opens the original)
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It’s a pretty open secret that when his term as Governor of California finishes on January 4th, 2027, Gavin Newsom is probably not even going to take a day off before commencing his (still unannounced) campaign for president. But between now and then, Newsom remains in charge of a U.S. state with enormous political, economic, and regulatory clout. California is a national leader in many respects, not least because so many key businesses are located there or want to do business there, and hence a
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