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Trump sees diplomacy as an act in which foreign countries make endless & unilateral concession to the US following US diktats and/or performing acts of public submission to Trump- so this not surprising one bit nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/…

Trump Administration 2.0 is really looking for every possible way to annoy & alienate other friendly & neutral countries it seems no matter how minor the costs of being decent involve... nytimes.com/2025/04/22/wor…

I like how NYT now writing headlines about China & the trade war as if its writing about a war occurring in a Japanese Magna series/movie... nytimes.com/2025/04/23/bus…

I want to congratulate Trump for illustrating quite visibly what his administrations endless talk about "global economic rebalancing" and "bringing manufacturing back to US" means to the average American consumer quality of life.

This has strong vibes of "no one in the NKVD dared contradict Stalin's claim that the Nazis will not invade the USSR in 1941 & therefore did nothing to prepare for it" rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

The US national security guys on both sides of the aisle who claimed in the late 2010s that the US could undertake "great power competition" w/China without seriously harming welfare of Chinese Americans in the US need to reflect on what they have wrought axios.com/2025/05/01/asi…

In other news, key parts of US spy agencies are angry that Trump asked them to spy on Greenland, a place posing no threat to US, & prepare ground for warfare/meddling in it, that they are trying to get Trump to back off plan by quickly leaking it to media thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

Many are- when I heard about AI it became clear to me that I'll be checking handwritten closed book, in person final exams for rest of career & they'll find me holding a half graded bluebook in my cold dead hands when I die😀

One of the giants of IR, Joseph Nye, has died. As Daniel W. Drezner correctly noted, its a rather cruel irony that Nye died as the importance of his greatest contribution to IR, the concept of soft power, is about to be field tested on US by Trump Admin. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/joseph-nye-r…

Our academic publications are, by definition successes, so its nice for ISP to have a whole roundtable for once for unsuccessful research projects to give a fuller picture of what research is like academic.oup.com/isp/article-ab…

In other news if the EU wants to know how to get Trump's tariffs removed it has a clear pathway to that (every red state product imaginable must be embargoed) washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Vast majority of AI experts believe that key assumption of Biden & Trump Admins on AI- that we are about to develop soon AGI/humanlike AI- is very unlikely to happen soon & we lack needed tech. A major US FP is based, as usual, on inaccurate premises. nytimes.com/2025/05/16/tec…

In other news, Trump administration has just intervened in the 2025 Polish presidential election for the RW populist candidate (Nawrocki) by promising (speech by Noem) no US military abandonment of Poland if he wins & possible abandonment if he loses. tvpworld.com/86956490/trump…

Trump & Vance aren't non interventionists either (see Greenland etc.)-but in a fight between a pathological liar that promises in election campaigns more restrained US FP & ppl who double down on past US FP mistakes its not surprising Trump wins GOP control given war wary public