Trump strode into the economic forum at Davos, Switzerland, like a braggadocios conquering hero. They regarded him with the same sort of awe and fear that they would have regarded a modern Genghis Khan. But Trump’s weapon was not military, it was economic. He used the United States’ economic power and the threat of tariffs […]
As an emerging teenager in the eary 1940s, in no way was I perfect, and I did not consider myself to be so. However, I was a romantic idealist through and through. I read biographies of Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln and was familiar with stories of Roland and Oliver, Sir Gallahad and Robert […]
The Trump administration certainly knows how to keep us on edge. They are trying to manage a large number of bouncing balls. Is Trump a master juggler? Time will tell. The Venezuelan situation remains unresolved. The dictator is gone, but his coercive infrastructure remains. Can we put sufficient pressure on the remnants of the Maduro […]
Trump’s Venezuelan strategem was bold, brilliant and incredibly risky. The comparisons with Iraq are inevitable. In both instances the United States was dealing with a ruthless dictator who posed a serious threat to us and to international stability. In the first case we formed an international coalition and invaded Iraq. The defeat and deposition of […]
The Trump administration is attempting to deal with a number of bouncing balls in both the domestic and international arenas All of these situations are difficult to manage, and there is no guarantee of success. Two of the international issues relate to Venezuela and Iran. In Venezuela we managed to get rid of Maduro, but […]
In my last post I remarked that Donald Trump makes his enemies appear small. He is the most dominating political figure of the early 21st Century. He reminds me of Gulliver and the Lillyputians. Some of the little people loved him, there were those who hated him, and all feared him. When fire broke out […]
Happy New Year, everyone. 2026 has begun with a bang. Under the direction of President Trump, American special forces struck deep into Venezuala and captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife. They are now in transit to NYC for trial on narco terror charges. I once described Trump as a whirling dervish. This affords us another […]
Some days ago I had dinner with a new acquaintance here at Charlestown. He seems to be a fine fellow, and I enjoyed conversing with him. We soon discovered that we were on opposite sides in our views on politics and the cultural war going on in our nation. Though he is neither gay nor […]
After my last post I attempted to learn more about our strange interstellar visitor 3i/ATLAS. Most scientists tend to describe it as a extremely rare but natural object that exhibits the usual characteristics of a comet, although there are anomalies. Others, including Avi Loeb, theoretical physicist at Harvard University, have suggested the possibility of our […]
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man […]
