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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 Putin Machado Venezuelan oil tanker

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Authoritarianism, iPINIONS, Nobel Peace Prize, oil politics, Putin, Russia, Trump, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Venezuela

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 captures Maduro emulating Bush capturing Noriega

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: drug war hypocrisy, President Nicolás Maduro, Putin influence in Latin America, Trump military operation

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 meeting with Zelensky for so-called peace talks

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: 25th Amendment, American decline, Authoritarianism, iPINIONS, Putin, Trump, Ukraine, US foreign policy, Zelensky

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

Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump drone strikes on Nigeria to protect Christians

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Africa, Christians, drone strikes, foreign policy, iPINIONS, Nigeria, Power Politics, Trump, US military

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

Friday, December 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Happy Christmas from Gaza and Ukraine

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Christmas, Gaza, Global Indifference, Holidays, humanitarian crisis, International Politics, iPINIONS, Moral Responsibility, Sudan, Ukraine, war

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 National Security Strategy and its pro-Putin slant

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Africa US foreign policy, National Security Strategy, Putin, Russia, Trump, Ukraine

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
Zuma daughter recruiting African fighters for Putin's war

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Africa, BRICS, geopolitics, Human Trafficking, Jacob Zuma, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin

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
Pearl Harbor Day the Monroe Doctrine and Trumpism

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: American Empire, Historical Memory, Monroe Doctrine, Pearl Harbor Day, Trumpism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Year of Infamy

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
image of Trump banning migrants from Third World countries

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: CIA, immigration, national security, racism, South Africa, Third World migration, Trump

Statement on the Arrest of My Cousin Eunece Morris

Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
ZNS reporting on arrest of Eunece Morris

Police in The Bahamas allege that Eunece Morris defrauded multiple clients through her travel agency more than a decade ago, before fleeing the jurisdiction in 2011. She was reportedly living as a carefree fugitive in the Turks and Caicos Islands. But, just days ago, she was detained while transiting through the Cayman Islands and extradited… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: crime, Eunece Morris, extradition, fraud, Gilbert Morris, Grand Bahama, Turks and Caicos Islands

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