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Ideas and Reflections / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published October 29, 2026 · Last modified October 30, 2026
Donald Trump has attempted to whitewash his absolute handover of U.S. foreign policy to the interests and demands of Vladimir Putin by pointing to the latter’s pathetic gesture of releasing an American prisoner who had been held in a Russian jail for four years on charges of — oh, the irony of it all — fighting for Ukraine. As though this release were...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published October 20, 2026
The standard critical explanations circulating in the public discussion to account for Donald Trump’s recent caution-to-the-wind support for Vladimir Putin’s aims in Ukraine, and his simultaneous overt branding of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine as the only true impediment to peace in the region, have been variations on the theme of Trump’s shortsighted eagerness to lower American fuel prices in a desperate attempt to turn...
Donald Trump is so frustrated with NATO and the EU for refusing to reward Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine that he has decided to take matters into his own hands, openly condemning Volodymyr Zelensky as the cause of America’s energy problems, problems Trump is now “solving” by overriding his own country’s sanctions against Russia in order to directly buy Russian fuel...
Donald Trump, as part of his crusade to keep the stock market’s tech bubble alive, obviously for the sake of his and his family’s material profit, is not only rejecting all pleas for regulation of the development of artificial intelligence, but is even proposing to boost its idiot-friendliness by changing its name to something even more false than the current one. Specifically, he...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 17, 2026
To those U.S. military veterans who were once friendly readers of my writing but turned against me when they fell under the spell of the dumbest and most corrupt man ever to run for commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and who pooh-poohed my criticisms of said dunderhead with refusals to accept his own frequent pro-despot words (and later policies) at face value,...
CBS, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc., has obtained by way of a phone call with “senior U.S. officials,” a full rundown of the fourteen-point “memorandum of understanding” between the United States and Iran, which lays the groundwork for final treaty negotiations to end the dumbest own-goal defeat in American military history. In sum, these fourteen points summarize the...
Back in January, when the Iranian people took to the streets in yet another desperate cry for international support against their theocratic oppressors, and faced death by the thousands for their courage, Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful lying coward, took to social media, where he does all his brave fighting, to send a message to those risking everything on the streets of...
It is common sophistry among the performance artists formerly known as the alt-right, along with their millions of useful idiots, to ask with a rhetorical flourish and a pretense of perplexity why — “I mean really, exactly why?” — The United States should be supporting leftist-progressive Europe and the NATO alliance against Putin’s “Christian, anti-woke Russia.” The answer, simplified for the useful idiots...
It has been revealed that Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, was in regular and surreptitious contact with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, specifically tasked with undermining EU policies toward Vladimir Putin’s regime and feeding inside information about high-level European strategy meetings to the Kremlin. Furthermore, according to prime minister-elect Péter Magyar, in the hours after the Orbán government suffered a crushing electoral...
Here, from Axios, is the funniest headline I have read this year, or perhaps ever: Scoop: US suggests Cuba complicit in helping Russia fight Ukraine. No, of course, when I say this is the funniest headline of the year, I am not referring to the usual news media illiteracy that has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore. For does not...
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