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The Bahamas celebrates 53 years of independence today with Junkanoo, flags, prayers, speeches, and patriotic pageantry. Yet the constitution still bows to a British king and the Privy Council. iPINIONS bemoans that’s not independence fulfilled. That’s independence deferred. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-bahamas-marks-53-years-of-independence Read more.
NATO’s Ankara summit was supposed to showcase alliance strength. Instead, iPINIONS contends that it exposed how far European leaders will go to appease Trump, even as Ukraine proves that, despite his ignorant bravado, the US needs Europe as much as Europe needs the US. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/natos-ankara-summit-strengthen-the Read more.
Trump’s Haiti policy exposes Washington’s oldest habit toward the world’s first Black republic. It outsources guilt, privatizes violence, and calls the invoice policy. iPINIONS contends that the Shield of the Americas was never meant to shield Haiti. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-shield-of-the-americas-against Read more.
MAGA warns Europe about immigration as if it threatens civilization. But immigration made America great. iPINIONS thinks MAGA’s real fear is that it also made America less White. And that’s the unforgivable sin. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/why-is-maga-warning-europe-about Read more.
Trump once told Americans to sleep well because he had supposedly ended the North Korean nuclear threat. North Korea kept building. iPINIONS warns that he’s now running the same delusional play with Iran: boasting of victory, hyping imaginary deals, and pretending Netanyahu will do whatever he says. But Iran just halted talks, oil prices spiked,… Read more.
Trump says Cuba is on his mind. But iPINIONS argues this is not strategy. It’s wag-the-dog theater, with Cuba cast as the next stage for Trump’s imperial bluster after humiliation in Iran. From Rubio’s exile politics to Russia’s meddling and the Supreme Court’s property ruling, the Cuba threat looks less like foreign policy than conquest… Read more.
Of course Netanyahu is pulling what little remains of his hair out. Because, despite all their bombing and bluster, the US and Israel haven’t achieved any of their goals. After all, Iran will emerge stronger than ever … acting like a superpower on the world stage, with its control of the Strait of Hormuz, uranium,… Read more.
In both images, a local hand is doing the pointing. But iPINIONS contends that US policy loaded the moment. In Vietnam, Washington intervened where it had no business intervening, and helped spread the very communism it claimed to contain. In Congo and Uganda, Washington gutted USAID, leaving local health workers to police Ebola with broken… Read more.
Ukraine spent the first years of Putin’s genocidal invasion begging Biden and NATO for the weapons to strike back in kind. Instead, Washington dithered, NATO cowered, and Kyiv paid the price. iPINIONS argues that while Biden delayed, Ukraine innovated. Now its drones are reaching Moscow, its weapons industry is booming, and Europe is looking to… Read more.
Nixon went to China and changed the world. Trump went to China and degraded the country. This iPINIONS commentary argues that Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping turned US-China diplomacy into a spectacle of MAGA corruption, billionaire access, and national humiliation. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nixon-went-to-open-china-trump-is Read more.
