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A Really Close Call

December 7, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Miscellaneous.

We’ve had a really close call. I’m glad I put blogging and much else aside for a while, when I became deeply immersed in the Biden/Harris get out the vote • Read More »

Tags: coup, Fascist, hitler, inept authoritatianism, mussolini, Napoleon, Nazi, nearest run thing, Trump Administration, Waterloo, Wellington

Trump’s Italian Doppelgänger

October 3, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Italy, US Government Operations.

Trump’s Italian Doppelgänger survived COVID-19. An encouraging example for the President, perhaps. Though more visibly fit, recidivist former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is actually ten years older than Trump. Still, he • Read More »

Tags: Berlusconi, COVID-19, populism, trump

Pullout from NATO: Could It Be Stopped?

September 7, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Miscellaneous.

Pullout from NATO in a second Trump term? The September 3 New York Times piece by @michaelcrowley was enough to trigger palpitations in any old security policy wonk. No big surprise, in truth. The President • Read More »

Tags: 2020 election, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty, presidential power, Senate, treaty withdrawal

First Do No Harm. And the Democratic Platform Doesn’t

August 22, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Democratic Party, Diplomacy.

“First do no harm.” Not an actual quotation from the Hippocratic Oath, but sound advice for physicians and politicians. Crafters of the newly approved platform of the Democratic Party took it to • Read More »

Tags: #democraticplatform, bidenharis2020, Medicareforall

Waiting for the Barbarians

August 16, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Historical Analogies, Immigration.

Waiting for the Barbarians is certainly an imperfect movie. The performances by Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp, for example, are one-dimensional, and the latter regrettably seems reduced to doing caricatures • Read More »

Tags: #thetartarsteppe, #waitingforthebarbarians, Alexandria, cavafy, coetzee

Avoiding Demographic Meltdown Requires Immigration

July 30, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Miscellaneous.

Avoiding demographic meltdown requires immigration, now more than ever. There is bad news for the U.S. birthrate. Peter Coy writes for Bloomberg that, due to the pandemic, 2021 births here could • Read More »

Ambassador Behaving Badly

July 27, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | 1 Comment | Filed in: Diplomacy, State Department, US Government Operations.

Ambassador behaving badly. Not exactly a new story, but the CBS News item about the current U.S. ambassador to Iceland was particularly juicy. Although serving in one of the safest countries in • Read More »

Tags: career diplomats, Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, political appointees, U.S. ambassador, vetting

Lessons from 1940s Italy?

July 16, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Historical Analogies, Italy.

Historical analogies can help us think about the present and the future. Our current situation is in part similar to the aftermath of World War II in Europe. No war with tens of • Read More »

Tags: Catholic Church, Christian Democrats, Clare Boothe Luce, Communists, globalization, Holy See, Socialists, Steve White, US-Italy

Authoritarian Rhetoric 101

July 4, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | 3 Comments | Filed in: Authoritarianism.

It was ironic how, in his July 3 Mt. Rushmore speech, the President presented himself as a defender of free speech against “far-left fascism.” As we know, the President himself is • Read More »

Tags: Fascism, hitler, mussolini, rhetoric, trump

Risk of Failure to Extend the New START Treaty

June 27, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | 1 Comment | Filed in: Arms Control, Diplomacy.

New START Extension Unlikely Failure to extend the New START treaty is likely. It is the last US/Russian arms control agreement that limits nuclear weapons for both sides and will • Read More »

Tags: Billingslea, China, Crisis of competence, INF Treaty, Jeese Helms, New START Treaty, Putin, Russia, US

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