The reason Ron DeSantis bangs his not very big drum on the big world stage
by Rashmee
Posted on April 28, 2023
It says something that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his four-nation ‘world tour’ in London …
Read MoreHow will Joe Biden deal with the foreign policy ‘hinge’?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2020
Henry Kissinger called America’s indecision between its values and its interests the “hinge”. Rightly so. …
Read MoreUS diplomat’s wife flees UK for hit-and-run: Is rule of law now subverted for Americans everywhere?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 5, 2019
News that the wife of a US diplomat has fled Britain because she is suspected …
Read MoreThe beginning of the end of American power? – Part I
by Rashmee
Posted on January 17, 2019
If you’re American it’s hard to imagine a happy new year in 2019. Let me …
Read MoreFaux foreign issues and Trump’s battle for votes
by Rashmee
Posted on November 11, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
US elections, especially the low-wattage midterms, don’t generally hinge on foreign policy issues but the …
Read MoreTrump’s Twitter guru rails at both migrants and Western-born children of migrants
by Rashmee
Posted on December 1, 2017
Now that the gloves are mostly off, why don’t Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and others …
Read MoreThe Anglosphere loses the most because of Australia First, Kiwis First policies
by Rashmee
Posted on May 26, 2017
I don’t know if you noticed but New Zealand too, like Australia and Donald Trump’s …
Read MoreDoors begin to close on India’s tech diaspora
by Rashmee
Posted on April 27, 2017 / The National
After nearly two decades of being welcomed as the geeks who could inherit the Earth …
Read MoreTake Trump’s ‘America First’ world view seriously. And literally. He’s said this 30 years
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2016
It was Peter Thiel, Donald Trump’s only Silicon Valley supporter before the election, who had …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK