Trump: Lurching towards a New Foreign Policy? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 6 January 2019 If the rise of strong new powers like China poses a challenge to the older US-dominated geopolitical order, what about about the converse? The challenge to the international order created by a declining and erratic great power ever more at odds […]
Trump Pulls the Plug in Syria Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 21 July 2017 Every once in a while President Trump manages to get something right. This time it is the decision to call off the broad US covert assistance to the Syrian opposition forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Asad. Asad has been notoriously brutal […]
Trump—Blundering into European Truths Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 5 June 2017 President Trump’s ignorant, oafish and crude foreign policy style rivets our attention, arouses our indignation. But the drama of the diplomatic mayhem he wreaks while traveling abroad also distracts from recognizing more serious underlying problems of US policy— deep negative trends that predate Trump. […]
Graham E. Fuller, ContributorFormer Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council Assad Is A Monster But If Trump Overthrows Him, Syria Will Likely Be Run By Terrorists If the U.S. topples Assad, it’ll create a power vacuum for warring extremists. 04/11/2017 09:52 am ET SANA SANA / REUTERSAssad during an interview with a Croatian […]
Trump is Right on Palestine: Beyond the “Two-State Solution” Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 20 February 2017 Just because Trump said it doesn’t mean it has to be wrong. During the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington, President Trump publicly stated he is not necessarily wedded to a “two-state solution” in Palestine. He is […]
Trump-Putin Frenzy Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 19 December 2016 I cannot recall a period in which the US public debate across the media has reached such implacably partisan and toxic proportions. The issues are indeed important—particularly the specific case of Russian involvement in helping make public the activities of the Democratic National Committee—information that was strongly […]
President Trump Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 9 November 2016 The very words hit the ear as a shock; the mind is not ready for it. And that is exactly the problem. We could not see it coming. Among other things this tawdry and interminable election represents a massive American intelligence failure. Not failure of IQ, […]
Impeachment? Revenge? or Healing?
January 10, 2021 by Graham E. Fuller • Uncategorized • Tags: impeachment, Trump •
10 January 2021 Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) The videos and pictures are astonishing. For someone like myself, who has lived so much of my life in developing countries, scenes of insurrection and coups are sadly familiar–abroad. But at home they clash sharply with how we view the conduct of our domestic politics. Understandably for Americans […]
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