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Trump thought overwhelming American military power meant he held all the cards. Instead, Iran keeps moving the goalposts, tightening its grip on Hormuz and raising the price every time Trump thinks he has found a way out. Now he is reportedly even considering walking away without the nuclear deal he claimed this war was supposed… 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.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warns that AI is becoming a new Tower of Babel. As the son of a preacher man, I know that parable well: human hubris, God-like ambition, and the danger of power without humility. From OpenAI’s safety wars to Anthropic’s rare moral caution, from social media brain rot to… Read more.
Elina Svitolina’s refusal to shake Aryna Sabalenka’s hand at the Australian Open was widely praised as a righteous protest. But iPINIONS argues it crossed a line, undermining the spirit of sport and weakening, rather than strengthening, the moral case for Ukraine. In tennis, as in diplomacy, grace can sometimes do more than gestures of defiance.… Read more.
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.
Trump strutted into the UN General Assembly, turned it into grotesque theater, and left America exposed as morally bankrupt. From bragging about a Nobel Prize he’ll never get, to enabling Netanyahu’s war crimes, to echoing Putin’s playbook, Trump’s speech showed how far America has fallen — from global leader to global pariah. iPINIONS cuts through… Read more.
Trump rolled out the red carpet in Alaska, literally, only to let Putin strut as the puppet master. No deals, no ceasefire, just humiliation for America and a PR win for a war criminal. iPINIONS warned it would be so… Read it on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-putin-summit-alaska-2025-played Read more.
A secretary of state in name only I said from the start that Marco Rubio’s nomination as Secretary of State was about tokenism, not diplomacy. Trump proved me right by stacking his administration with White, DEI (“didn’t earn it”) special envoys, making Rubio irrelevant. Case in point: Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy of special envoys, was… Read more.
Russia has warned its citizens they might be “hunted” if they travel to the US or other Western countries. But this warning reeks of projection and gaslighting — now the hallmarks of Russia’s dealings with the West. After all, Russia has turned arresting Americans and other Westerners on trumped-up charges into a cottage industry, using… Read more.
Russia calls in North Korean cavalry Russia has been waging a genocidal war in Ukraine for nearly three years. Now it’s bogged down. In fact, Russian troops are so beleaguered that President Putin has reportedly bartered with fellow pariah Kim Jong-un for North Korean reinforcements. Kim offered tens of thousands of his soldiers for the… Read more.
