Tony Greco

Have you missed me?  Website technical problems have deterred me from posting for the past month, but my inactivity is also partly explained by the fact that I’ve pretty much said what I want to say about the issues of ...

In organizing and spearheading the international response to the Russian assault on Ukraine, the United States has played the role typically assigned to it in the folklore of American foreign policy: leader of the free world in standing for peace, ...

No, it isn’t.  That’s the conclusion reached by political scientist Jerome Slater in his 2021 book, Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israel Conflict, 1917-2020.  But it is possible to craft a solution that minimizes unavoidable injustice. Slater’s ...

So, Putin has decided that the threat was not enough; he is executing the threat.  I was wrong.  I thought that at most Putin would be content to move into the Donbas, to set up a pile of bargaining chips ...

I’m going to do something I almost never do: I’m going to go out on a limb.  I’m going to say that I don’t think Putin will invade Ukraine. I think Putin holds to a maxim well-known to chess players: ...

Elections in Honduras have resulted in an apparently decisive victory for the leftist opposition candidate, Xiomara Castro, 12 years after a coup that ousted her husband, Manuel Zelaya, from power.  The junta that followed was fortunately less than completely successful in ...