It wasn’t long ago that demands for a more ‘strategic autonomy’ approach for Europe seemed to slip away with Russia’s invasion of

Well yes a bit late. Sorry. And also a bit shorter. Indeed, I am anticipating rather shorter Posts, and possibly later than

As much destruction, it seems, as this second Trump administration can engineer! And fast! One can’t avoid ‘reeling’ from the current Trump

The Trump attack on interdependence – particularly economic – has felt foolish and destructive but without question – relentless. What appeared to

It was hard to swallow the various initiatives and proposals that flooded from the White House and indeed Trump’s lips this week.

Many anticipated, and or feared, the flood of Executive Orders from the second Trump White House these past weeks. The barrage of

Well, I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised. But since I’ve never spent time listening to Trump speeches – I thought I

So, with the last several Posts here at Alan’s Newsletter, I have been transitioning – altering my mindset, and bidding farewell to

Well, hello, we’re back! I do hope the holidays proved to be a warm time and filled with family and friends. Now,

Now you might think, with that title, that I’d be delving into Trump 2.0. Well, not exactly in the first instance. Instead,

It is kinda like wading into a well-developed cornfield; no, maybe it’s more like a cornfield with some incendiary devices strewn throughout.

Now I’m not in New York City; at least not at the moment. And I am not particularly plugged in to UN