The Trenchant Observer | International Law, Politics, and Security

2016 U.S. Presidential election, Baltasar Garzón, Barack Obama, CIA, Crimes Against Humanity, Donald Trump, extrajudicial execution, freedom of speech, History, human rights, Intelligence, propaganda, Spain, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.N. Convention Against Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, U.S. Military, United Kingdom, war crimes April 11, 2019

When and how did America lose her soul?

America has lost her soul. You feel something is missing, the kind of sense of community that we used to have–20 or 30 or 40…

Donald Trump, elections

TRUMP RESIGNS! Accounts differ as to reasons

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

What is going on in the world?

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 December 18, 2018

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

It comes as no surprise that President Donald Trump, who has demonstrated little regard for law in general, has failed spectacularly to uphold and defend…

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