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Last week’s UK local elections humiliated the Conservative-Labour duopoly and showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is no longer just a protest vote. iPINIONS argues that Britain is relapsing into Brexit politics just as America relapsed into MAGA politics … voters choosing entertainment over governance, their own welfare be damned. Read my full take on Substack:… Read more.
Here’s how iPINIONS thinks EU leaders should respond: Sure, Don TACO, just like you’re “considering” invading Iran. You launched this war without consulting us, demanded we bleed for it, and now you’re throwing a tantrum because we said no? NATO is a defense alliance, not your foreign legion. You’re acting like a spoiled kid threatening… Read more.
King Charles came to America bearing pomp, tea, and a civics lesson Trump’s America sorely needed. But iPINIONS contends that Epstein haunted the visit, Christian Turner undercut the special relationship, and Magna Carta exposed the absurdity of a republic flattering a wannabe king. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/king-charless-rough-wooing-of-trump Read more.
Three years into Sudan’s war, the death toll, famine, and mass displacement are staggering. Yet unlike Ukraine, Gaza, or Iran, Sudan still struggles to command sustained media attention or geopolitical urgency. iPINIONS argues that neglect has less to do with racism or religion than with the brutal fact that Sudan offers the West little strategic… Read more.
India surpassed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, and barely anyone noticed. But iPINIONS contends the cartoon’s real irony is darker still: both Asian giants now face the same demographic trap… too few babies and too much geopolitical irony. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/er-india-has-more-people-than-china Read more.
iPINIONS warned days before CNN reported that the ceasefire with Iran was always likely to give China time to help Tehran rearm. This new commentary argues that Trump’s response exposes something even darker: a president more interested in courting autocrats and enriching himself than in defending the democratic alliance America built after World War II.… Read more.
iPINIONS argues in this latest commentary that Pope Leo has become far more than a spiritual counterweight to Trump. He has emerged as a direct moral rebuke to Trump’s Christian nationalism, from war and immigration to oligarchy and empire. The contrast now looks biblical… one man calling the faithful back to the straight and narrow,… Read more.
Trump threatened to destroy Iranian civilization, then TACOed once again. But as iPINIONS argues, the real scandal is not only his menace abroad. It is the banana republic he is making of America at home See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/e-pluribus-trump-mad-president-threatens Read more.
Putin just exposed Trump’s Cuba blockade as another bluff. After threatening to stop any country from supplying oil to the island, Trump folded the moment Russia called him on it. iPINIONS contends that this humiliation reaches far beyond Cuba to Iran, NATO, and Taiwan. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/putin-defies-trumps-blockade-to-deliver Read more.
Joe Kent may be a deeply flawed messenger. But when Bernie Sanders and Mark Warner both validate his core point, iPINIONS says the real scandal is no longer who said it. It’s how long Washington let Netanyahu drag America toward another disastrous war against Iran. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/forget-antisemite-joe-kent-jewish Read more.
