Foreign policy without International Law
Since the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the foundational writings of Hugo Grotius, nations have paid attention to international law in…
Read MoreUkraine
What is going on in the world?
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
Russia continues aggression against Ukraine, now in Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov
Trump versus Obama — How the Democrats can lose the Mid-terms
Opinion: Leaked transcript of private two-hour conversation between Putin and Trump in Helsinki
New jargon and nonsense: “The old liberal international order”
Trump promotes Putin at G-7: Payoff for intervention in U.S. elections
OUR VALUES: Truth Integrity Decency Character Facts Science Law Freedom
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.