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 …

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How 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. …

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US 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 …

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The 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 …

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Faux 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 …

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Trump’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 …

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The 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 …

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Doors 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 …

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Take 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 …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK