How Trump anti-science slashing of R&D funding is giving away the US tech/innovation edge. For Xi, Trump is the gift that keeps giving. nationalinterest.org/blog/techlan...

Thanks, Captain Obvious. Now what?

What to worry about in 2026? Our annual Top Ten Global Risks for 2026 is out! Venezuela just the start of a wild ride ahead. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/02/t...

Indeed

Neared Celk! How will AI be distributed? nationalinterest.org/blog/techlan...

Who needs intelligence agencies when you have the very stable genius?

I’d settle for plain, English, Harry Truman-like. People looking for authenticity.

The promise & perils of the Techno-utopians. Are the modern version of the 17th century British East India Company, creating a tech empire ahead of the state? nationalinterest.org/blog/techlan...

Pretty much. But gradually moving from Orwell — ban books, etc to Huxley— no need to ban, as nobody wants to read books, just live in the Netaverse.

New Red Cell Why repairing the damage of Trump destruction of US state capacity, US global standing and retreat from multilateralism will be extremely difficult. Can't put Humpty Dumpty back together. nationalinterest.org/feature/the-...

NEW RED CELL Trump: Costs & Consequences How the world may be reordered. nationalinterest.org/feature/pres...

Exactly.

Trump is undoing 45 years of carefully structured understandings and cooperation that resulted in stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific. An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/t...

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Prescient.

👇sadly, a reality check.

Ending government waste, fraud and abuse, eh?

Why there will be few negotiated resolutions. Trump goals are 1) tariffs as extortion: free money to US Treasury, reasons don't matter-- any one will do. and 2) decouple from China. Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia got "China+1" FDI, to assemble China stuff exported to US. Electronics, shoes, clothes.

Impactful, big story buried under tariff headlines: ROK Poresident impeached. June elections, according to polls, likely to result in a DP, leftist government (already controls Parliament). I'm guessing tensions with Trump ahead.

Exactly

How is this acceptable?

This is exactly what it looks like. what rationale besides race?

Cui Bono? Seems a form of Oligarchs waging class warfare by nihilism.

This is not just a gift to Putin, but also morally repugnant and indefensible.

Bingo

As long as Trump is in the realm of capricious madness, why not Canada invite California, Oregon and, Washington to secede from the US and become new Canadian provinnces.

This is how deep the decay is, not just the book burners. but 31% of 8th graders can read at grade level. Gearing up to succeed in a world of technology revolution.

Sometimes it seems as if the US has begun a long march back to the 14th century.

Some troubling revolutionary similarities -- fostering anti- elites populist chaos to undo the administrative state, bureaucracy. But not (yet) the savage, murderous self-rigtheous violence. But no Zhou Enlai -- and at the end of the day, not sure who our Dng Xiaopeng (or if there is one).

One must ask, is there an explanation other than simple nihilism, a sense that there is no social contract, no idea of public good, that government is no different that a business -- if it impedes profit....?

Present at the destruction.

Follow the miney

That's how it happens. Germany 1933.

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Funny, Putin says the same thing.

Bingo

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Pretty much. Wrong end of a Faustian bargain.

Consistent trend: crony capitalism

What's next? Scenarios of Ukraine possible futures. www.stimson.org/2025/which-f...

The gap between China's professed foreign policy ideals and actual policies is revealed by the case of Myanmar. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/27/m...

Indeed. He is unraveled many the instruments that enabled and legitimized US Primacy — providing public goods, Bretton Woods system to manage global economy, and the soft pier of these & US professed ideals ( however hypocritical).

They have no idea what they’re doing — and keep lying about it as they wildly swing the wrecking ball. This is not reform, it’s nihilism. What Elon Worry.

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Yes, farmers hate government, but love the benefits.

49% of US food aid from American farmers, now suffering. Trump likely to use tariffs to compensate them, underlining the absurdity of the whole thing.

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Listening to Carville would make sense for the Dems. His strategy is to follow Napolean's advice: Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

But would it be enough in lieu of US guarantees? Would Poland go nuclear? In Asia, South Korea and Japan now incentivized.

Pretty much. It takes quite a bit of fear, of ambition denied to turn an entire GOP Congress into trained seals.