Jan Fleischhauer

Barack Obama, CIA, elections, freedom of speech, human rights, Intelligence, State Department, United States August 18, 2015

U.S. presidential primaries: Donald Trump as incendiary wildcard, and Hillary Clinton as hyper-advised calculating robot

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as dream candidates—for the other side Sometimes it seems that the Republicans and the Democrats have found the perfect candidate…

Barack Obama, France, History, International Law, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, U.N. Charter, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force April 8, 2014

Russia threatens further aggression against the Ukraine: The response of the West has been a bad joke; Putin must be stopped

Updated and revised Let me say quite frankly that it pains our hearts to see what is happening in Ukraine at the moment, see the…

Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, freedom of speech, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, Russia, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, Ukraine, use of force, Venezuela April 4, 2014

Is Putin like Hitler?

For a strong opinion on why Russian annexation of the Crimea cannot be accepted, see Jana Puglierin, “Wir dürfen die Annexion nicht hinnehmen,” Der Spiegel,…

The Trenchant Observer

International Law, Politics, and Security

Jan Fleischhauer

U.S. presidential primaries: Donald Trump as incendiary wildcard, and Hillary Clinton as hyper-advised calculating robot

Russia threatens further aggression against the Ukraine: The response of the West has been a bad joke; Putin must be stopped

Is Putin like Hitler?