Michael D. Swaine
@Dalzell60
Senior Research Fellow @QuincyInst, PhD Political Science @Harvard, B.G.S https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-swaine-50595423/
Excellent essay by my colleague Sarang Shidore. Please read/RT. thediplomat.com/2025/07/the-ph…
nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi… via @NYTOpinion Instilling a climate of fear for criticizing Trump is indeed the basis for the growth of authoritarianism. We have seen that this behavior extends far beyond the purpose of deterring illegal immigration.
And so, under Trump ideologues, the supposedly apolitical military becomes highly political. Not a good sign. Keeping Trump authoritarianism at bay requires a military that will not promote his political biases. axios.com/2025/07/14/pen…
It’s way too late, but the truth has a way of coming out. Forget the airdrops and scrap GHF — let the UN organizations resume their humanitarian delivery operations NOW to stop the ongoing starvation: nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…
The idiocy knows no bounds.
This is an absurd lie. One of Elon Musk's signature technologies is energy storage batteries designed for storing wind and solar at times when no sun or wind. Complete idiotic nonsense.
This is an absurd lie. One of Elon Musk's signature technologies is energy storage batteries designed for storing wind and solar at times when no sun or wind. Complete idiotic nonsense.
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
Thanks to Khody for doing this, part of a series of my comments on the topic that is coming out. And stay tuned for a two-part Brief on the issue of Taiwan and U.S. policy, to be published online by Quincy very soon.
Taiwan is NOT a core US interest. Watch @Dalzell60 break it down. (vid by Khody Akhavi) responsiblestatecraft.org/taiwan-war-chi…
nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor… via @NYTimes And the U.S. continues to back the criminal Netanyahu government, to our collective shame.
Take that, Trump. Add another crime to the list? apnews.com/article/un-cou…
Trump’s Huge Ugly Bill Should Be a Call to Action – MIRA By my Quincy colleague Bill Hartung. Not enough people call out the racist nature of the Trump regime. americas.org/trumps-huge-ug…
nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli… via @NYTimes Shows the level of insanity that the Trump regime has reached, in trying to whitewash American history to make it all sound like all sweetness and light. Another indicator of authoritarianism. It is Orwellian.
I recalculated China's potential trade diversion to include all regions and control for double-counting. In Q2, China potentially found replacement markets for 82% of its lost exports to the United States on a product-by-product basis.
Facing U.S. tariffs, China’s exports to the U.S. are down—while exports to Southeast Asia are up. Is that trade diversion and potential transshipment? My estimate: at most 34% of the increased PRC exports to SE Asia in Q2 could reflect trade diverted from the United States.
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the…
As the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the United States, China continues huge investments in wind and solar power. See images of the scale of China’s solar-power projects: theatlantic.com/photography/ar…
Great piece by Autor and Hanson. To avoid China Shock 2.0, US should: 1) build a trade coalition 2) allow Chinese FDI into US 3) support key tech 4) help workers So, not tariffs on everything from everywhere. 1/ nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…
Oh, spare us. I’m glad that he wasn’t seriously hurt, but the idea that, after all these years of observing his behavior, the media can still write about Trump’s personality without mentioning that he has demonstrably sociopathic traits, and is, in fact, a sociopath, and to…
Link to my article entitled "Is America's Energy Strategy the Greatest Strategic Blunder of the 21st Century?": open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…
When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March. But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing more than 60,000 civilians, 20,000 children, 237 UN aid workers, and 225 journalists in Gaza.