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In the New York Review of Books, Christopher Brown writes about what a “Manchurian Candidate” would do if elected, and it turns out to almlst exactly what Donald Trump has been doing. He says: Imagine that the president of the United States was a “Manchurian candidate,” an embedded foreign agent…

I am disappointed in Bill Maher’s readout of his dinner with President Trump. Maher found Trump charming and gracious, with no name calling or epithets. My theory is that Trump could do this because he won, and Maher lost.  Unspoken but underlying the conversation was Trump’s view that I kicked…

In the course of a general talk I said that the first preoccupation must be to prevent further aggression in the future by Germany or Japan. To this end I contemplated an association of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia. If the United States wished to include China in…

Early the following morning I lay in bed in my saloon on the train composing, in the light of the general discussion which had taken place, a note on my views on post-war security. I called this paper “Morning Thoughts”. One paragraph is possibly worthy of preservation in the light…

A number of senior US officials on a Signal call to discuss the US attack on the Houthis inadvertently included a journalist who should not have been on the call. The Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the story, Michael Gordon, used to call me at home to seek confirmation…

I am disappointed in how Trump deported the 200 Venezuelans on …  There seem to be several legal complications, mainly whether the Trump administration violated the judge’s order not to proceed with the deportations by continuin with the deportations.  These are important and should be resolved.   My personal concern is…

Wired Magazine reports that European countries are becoming more wary of doing business with big US internet and cloud firms like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. , “There’s a huge appetite in Europe to de-risk or decouple the over-dependence on US tech companies, because there is a concern that they could…

The Washington Post reports that income from tax payments could drop by 10% due to Trump’s interference with IRS, meaning that the national debt will probably go up faster than it would have before Trump and Must began attacking the IRS.

The Foreign Service Journal reran an article by former Secretary of State George Shultz. He said: Our relations with much of the rest of the world also have become characterized by distrust bordering on hostility, even in the way Washington deals with close allies in Europe and Asia. We are…

I served in the Foreign Service with George Moose, who according to NBC News, is under fire by DOGE for his role as the head of the US Institute of Peace. The article says: The lawsuit — which was brought by the Institute of Peace and members of the board and…