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Trump Has No South China Sea Strategy—and Needs One Fast

Trump Has No South China Sea Strategy—and Needs One Fast

February 24, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The South China Sea question is rolling toward the Trump White House like a long, low Pacific wave. Whenever it breaks, the president’s going to need a strategy he doesn’t seem to have yet. The strategy is just a piece…

Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House?

Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House?

February 22, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Our intelligence apparatus is doing far more than stoking paranoia about the Russian bogeyman—it’s threatening democracy. A couple of books come to mind amid the relentless leaks emanating from the spooks on either side of the Potomac and, not to…

North Korea’s Missile Test Leaves Trump with Three Options

North Korea’s Missile Test Leaves Trump with Three Options

February 17, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

You have to hand it to Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s unpredictable president: Launching a new ballistic missile just as President Trump and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe were meeting in Washington couldn’t have been more provocative. Factor in the assassination of…

Trump’s Tough Stance on Iran: Nothing to Gain, a Lot to Lose

Trump’s Tough Stance on Iran: Nothing to Gain, a Lot to Lose

February 10, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

President Trump said all along he was going to go after the Iran nuclear pact—another of his “worst evers.” During his campaign, he promised more sanctions, a promise which he has now kept after Iran fired a ballistic missile test…

Trump Takes a Running Whack at the Liberal Interventionists

Trump Takes a Running Whack at the Liberal Interventionists

February 10, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

He’s erratic and he’s no progressive, but at least he’s challenging the high priests of the foreign-policy establishment. Do not say Donald Trump the candidate hid his foreign-policy plans under a bushel, or that President-elect Trump did not hang in…

Trump Talks to Putin, and Suddenly Ukraine’s in Play

Trump Talks to Putin, and Suddenly Ukraine’s in Play

February 3, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Fighting erupted in Ukraine after many months of uneasy but consistent calm after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. and Russian presidents, finally spoke for the first time last weekend by telephone. Instantly, the Trump White House is faced…

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