International Affairs

Trump Tells Iranians to Fight the Mullahs as He Dithers Over Bombing Them

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

From January 6 to Tehran, Trump incites others to bleed while he stays safe. As Iranians face bullets in the streets, Trump blusters in Washington, threatening force, urging revolt, and refusing responsibility. iPINIONS examines performative tyranny, political slaughter, and the dangerous hypocrisy of calling others to fight battles you won’t, or launching bombs without fully… Read more.

Trump Seizes Putin’s Oil Tanker as Puppet Strings Go Haywire

Monday, January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump has finally defied Vladimir Putin; not to save Ukrainian lives, but to commandeer Venezuelan oil and indulge his obsession with power, spectacle, and humiliation. The seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker marks a shift from theatrical cruelty to real economic disruption, but it exposes something darker than strategy. iPINIONS contends that, in chasing oil, prestige,… Read more.

Trump Captures Maduro, Emulating Bush Sr.’s Capture of Panama’s Noriega

Saturday, January 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump finally delivers the Noriega sequel he’s been itching to stage. His capture of Maduro was decisive, dramatic, and deeply revealing. iPINIONS cuts through the triumphalism to ask the harder question: what does capturing one strongman actually change when the regime, repression, and hypocrisy remain firmly intact? Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-captures-maduro-emulating-bush Read more.

Trump Insists Putin Wants Peace, Proving Hillary Right and Getting on Zelensky’s Last Nerve

Monday, December 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s insistence that Putin wants peace isn’t naïveté; it’s alignment. As Ukraine burns, his rhetoric echoes Kremlin propaganda, strains relations with Kyiv, and further erodes America’s credibility abroad. iPINIONS argues that Trump’s rhetoric isn’t just reckless. It makes the clearest case yet for invoking the 25th Amendment. See my full take on Substack.https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-insists-putin-wants-peace-proving Read more.

US Drone Strikes in Nigeria: More Bullying “Shithole” than Protecting Christians

Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

This is Trump exporting his White Christian nationalist worldview under the guise of protecting Christians. Nigeria becomes the target not because Christians are uniquely threatened, but because a Black country fits Trump’s “shithole” hierarchy and Project 2025’s moralized militarism. Drone strikes become theology by other means — power dressed up as piety. Never mind that… Read more.

Wither Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza… And They Know It’s Christmas

Friday, December 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

As the world gathers to celebrate Christmas, war continues to devastate Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, and countless other places we choose not to name. This year-end iPINIONS post confronts the moral dissonance of comfort amid catastrophe, and asks what it means to look away while others endure. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/wither-ukraine-sudan-gaza-and-they Read more.

Trump’s National Security Strategy: Dominate the Americas, Split Europe with Russia and Asia with China, Monetize the Middle East, Quarantine Africa

Monday, December 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s newly published National Security Strategy reads less like a plan for global stability than a roadmap for willful disorder. Rather than strengthening alliances, the strategy reduces global security to transactional leverage, abandons Europe to Russian pressure, and forces the EU to reckon with defending itself without Washington. iPINIONS explains why Europe is now being… Read more.

Blood Money: How Zuma’s Daughter Enabled Putin’s African Body Count

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

They promised training but delivered trenches. Jacob Zuma’s family lurches from personal scandals to the recruitment of Africans as cannon fodder in Ukraine. iPINIONS decries how his daughter weaponized historical comradeship into blood tribute, and how African governments across the continent remain complicit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/blood-money-how-zumas-daughter-enabled Read more.

From FDR Decrying a Day of Infamy to Trump Executing a Year of Infamy

Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

On Pearl Harbor Day, history is meant to warn, not comfort. As iPINIONS argues, America has moved from condemning infamy abroad to exporting it across the hemisphere—through economic coercion, naval intimidation, and revived imperial arrogance. From FDR’s moral clarity to Trump’s year of infamy, this piece reframes remembrance as indictment. Read my full take on… Read more.

From Muslim Ban to ‘Third World’ Ban: Trump Expands Racist Immigration Policies

Monday, December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-muslim-ban-to-third-world-ban Read more.