The Elephant in the Room: Russia’s Role in the Demonstrations
The Elephant in the Room: Russia’s Role in the Demonstations One of the great unknowns is the extent to which Russia may have stoked racial…
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China abandons international law, and prospects for world leadership
Apple bows to Russian pressure, shows Crimea as Russian territory
What’s behind Trump’s pressure on Zelensky to work things out with Putin
The Great Buffoon’s lack of support of Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter
What is going on in the world?
International Law after Trump
Keeping Track of Trump’s Foreign Policy: From the Kerch Strait to Russian sanctions, Khashoggi, Syria, and Afghanistan
Putin’s puppet delivers, on Syria and sanctions—The foreign policy of a simpleton
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…
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…
50 Years Ago: The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and its enduring significance
See “August 20, 1968 — “Dubček, Svoboda!” The Trenchant Observer, August 10, 2010. 50 years ago, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies invaded…
Text of Crimea Declaration and Pompeo Testimony: U.S. finally states it will never recognize Russian annexation of Crimea
First Hints of Congressional Oversight Produce Significant Shift in U.S. Policy Towards Russia The Senate is to hold a series of hearings on different aspects…
Trump’s “Betrayal of Country”, or “Treason”
“Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not…
Opinion: Leaked transcript of private two-hour conversation between Putin and Trump in Helsinki
We have received through a chain of secret channels a “transcript” of the secret conversations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin which took place at…
Americans’ knowledge of international law, the military conquest of the Crimea, and proper dental floss use
Developing “Thirty-eight percent of Americans do not know that dental floss is used between the teeth, not between the tongue and lips.” –Joe Queenan, “Grungy…
Trump’s disdain for international law
President Donald Trump through his actions shows utter contempt for international law. This is true to such an extent that you have to wonder if…
Trump promotes Putin at G-7: Payoff for intervention in U.S. elections
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Vladimir Putin launched a massive attack on the American electoral system in 2016, to help elect Donald J. Trump
as President of the United States. Among his goals were that of getting the U.S. and European sanctions lifted.
Since then Trump has taken a number of actions favorable to Moscow, and failed to take actions he should have in opposition to Russian aggression.
Now, at the G-7 in Montreal on June 8, 2018, he has proposed reādmitting Russia to the G-7 group of leading economic powers. Russia was expelled from the group (then known as the G-8) following its invasions of the Ukraine.
We may now expect Donald Trump, who has once again shown his pro-Russian colors, to further Putin’s agenda by seeking to relax U.S. and European sanctions against Russia.
When Trump or Putin speaks of abandoning “the old liberal international order”, it should be clear, they are arguing for abandoning the international legal order based on the U.N. Charter and the prohibition of the international use of force.
Americans Are Lost in the Weeds, and Google Doesn’t Help
Continuing Google Censorship Google continues to censor The Trenchant Observer, not displaying search results on hot topics such as the Christopher Steele Dossier. In fact,…
Trump supporters, in and out of Congress, are undermining democracy and the rule of law
It pains one to say it, but Trump supporters, in and out of Congress, are undermining democracy and the rule of law.
Our “authoritarian clown” has sucked all of the oxygen out of public life, seduced perhaps 40% of the population, and wrapped himself inside and around our brains to such an extent that we can hardly think of anything else. The media, and particularly the cable media, are thriving on the Schadenfreude of their viewers as the latter watch in disbelief each day as each new outrage and each new revelation about the president’s unbelievably coarse and often apparently unlawful actions occur.
“Trump did this today,” or “Trump is going to do that,” and so goes the refrain.
But spectators are not free of moral blame. You can’t just watch his actions and decry them. Something must be done to stop him.