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Category: All Things Trump

  • Venezuela on path to freedom and prosperity

    George Rebane This morning the US carried out a law enforcement raid in Caracas to capture and extract Nicolas Maduro and wife, and transport them to stand trial in New York where they were indicted for narco-terrorism in 2020.  In the dead of night the operation came off without a hitch as a precisely integrated…

  • Trump’s foreign policy bats 500 – at best

    George Rebane Well, maybe it’s just 300 which is still good in any league. Let’s start with his Ukraine peace plan. The best that can be said about his initial ’29 point plan’ is that its adoption would be a disaster for the west.  Trump still does not understand Putin, his goals and constraints.  As…

  • America’s Undeclared Wars

    George Rebane [This post was published in the 25nov25 issue of The Union in an edited version titled ‘The Untied States of America’s undeclared wars’. gjr] The United States has a history of presidentially initiated military actions conducted under executive authority without a formal declaration of war from Congress, as the Constitution vests such declaratory…

  • Scattershots – 9oct25

    George Rebane The Turing test is dead, we are told.  There’s a reasonable basis for this assertion, because today’s AIs already convince humans, on a regular basis, that they are talking with another human.  So the new goal is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is defined as AIs that are ‘smarter’ than all humans in…

  • Trump’s Putin Relapse – 21aug25

    George Rebane The ongoing situation in Ukraine is totally asymmetrical – Russia intensifies its bombing and battlefield assaults while the West jawbones and regurgitates threats that don’t materialize.  Meanwhile Trump is basking in the revised and reconstructed interpretation of the disastrous Anchorage outcome – talk about lipstick on a pig.  He now believes his own…

  • Putin – 1, Trump – 0 (updated 16aug25)

    "Peace in our time!"  Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin, 1938 George Rebane Well hell, President Trump did not pull that one off in Anchorage.  With all the talking heads on Fox doing their best to put a good face on it, there’s no denying that Trump got nothing out of this abbreviated summit that he previewed…

  • Polling, polling, and more polling!

    [This post will host the comment stream for readers who are forever interpreting and debating the most recent Trump polling results.  gjr]

  • President Trump’s Memorial Day Message

    [In addition to the fine Memorial Day speech the president delivered at Arlington Cemetery yesterday, he went on truthSocial.com earlier and unloaded the message below that apparently reflects his true feelings, but on second thought was considered not appropriate for the polite company attending the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown. gjr]…

  • Scattershots – 22may2025 (updated 26may25)

    We must now take seriously the possibility that it will be the resurrection of a shared culture, not its abandonment, that will make possible our continued survival and cohesion.  The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (2025) George Rebane The Big Beautiful Bill is now on a rocky road…

  • Trump trumped?

    George Rebane Given the choices I remain a Trump supporter.  I have voted for him three times.  But as RR pages witness and its readers know, I am not an uncritical acolyte of his administration.  He has totally misread what may be termed the elements of negotiating with totalitarians, especially those of the communist stripe…

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