The Trenchant Observer | International Law, Politics, and Security

Afghanistan, Africa, China, coverage of foreign events, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, Donald Trump, European Union, foreign correspondents, foreign news coverage, France, human rights, International Law, Rule of Law, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine March 6, 2019

What is going on in the world?

What is going on in the world? For two years Americans have been lost in an obsessive fixation on their lying president, the investigations into…

Donald Trump, elections, propaganda, U.S. Congress, U.S. Constitution

Impeach Trump, or read the impeachment clause out of the Constitution

Dictatorship, Donald Trump, International Law, Latin America, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, United Nations, use of force, Venezuela, Venezuela

Stupid and Incompetent Foreign Policy Towards Venezuela — “Intervention to Protect Nationals” (Updated)

authoritarian regimes, Donald Trump, elections, International Law, Latin America, Rule of Law, Russia, Soviet Union, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Venezuela

Trump Steers Dangerous Course in Venezuela

Afghanistan, authoritarian regimes, Crimea, Deutschland, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, elections, foreign news coverage, History, International Law, Rule of Law, Russia, sanctions, Soviet Union, Trump and Putin, U.N. Charter, U.S. news coverage, use of force, Vladimir Putin

International Law after Trump

authoritarian regimes, Crimea, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, freedom of speech, human rights, International Law, Iran, Lebanon, Nuclear Proliferation, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, syria, Taliban, Trump and Putin, U.S. Congress, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Vladimir Putin

Keeping Track of Trump’s Foreign Policy: From the Kerch Strait to Russian sanctions, Khashoggi, Syria, and Afghanistan

2016 U.S. Presidential election, Crimea, Donald Trump, International Law, Iran, Lebanon, NATO, Russia, sanctions, syria, U.S. Military, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Putin’s puppet delivers, on Syria and sanctions—The foreign policy of a simpleton

China, Donald Trump, International Law, Russia, sanctions, Trump and Putin, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Ukraine, South China Sea: Donald Trump and the U.S. failure to defend international law

elections, U.S. news coverage, Venezuela, Venezuela

Republicans’ white-knuckle tactics in limiting governors seal image as anti-democratic party

Crimea, Donald Trump, European Union, International Law, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes December 3, 2018

Russia continues aggression against Ukraine, now in Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov

In February, 2014, Russia invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of the Crimea, seized it by force, and in March purported to “annex” the Crimea to the…

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