Sitemap - 2024 - Robert’s Conflict Mitigation Newsletter

321 - Giving the New Syria a Chance to Perform Well

320 - Trump's Banana Republic

319 - Freeing Syria Rejigs the Middle East

318 - The NATO Option: Rescuing Ukraine from Trump/Putin

317 - Lessons for America from South Korea

316 - Biden Goes to Africa: A Strange Foray

315 - One Neighbor Beats Two Other Neighbors Over the Head, Just to Show that He Can: A Foreign Policy Gambit

314 - Let's Get Serious About Haiti

313 - Entering Dante's Inferno: Today's Torment of Hell, with Fires Raging

312 - Giving Ukraine Needed Weapons: Washington Finally Acts

311 -Big Time Buyer's Remorse: Unraveling the West Bank

310 - The Death Throes of a Free Ukraine

309 - Elections: The Bad and the Good

308 - The Fate of the Nation, and the World, is in Our Hands

307 - Can Israel Finally Craft a Sustainable Winning Strategy?

306 - World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

305 - Turning the Lights of Cuba Back On: A Very Radical Idea

304 - How Fascists Gain Control (2)

303 - How Fascists Gain Control: Inciting Violence and Vilifying Opponents

302 - Columbus Should Have Stayed Home

301 - The Arab Spring is Bust: The People Have Lost Out

300 - The Perils of Our Planet: Unleashed by Putin, Hamas, and Other Murderous Desperadoes

299 - Building Upon Success: Netanyahu Could Achieve a Lasting Peace

298 - The Senseless Wars of Africa, and Russian Meddling

297 - Missile Strikes and Targeted Bombings: Do they make Israel More Secure?

296 - Truth Telling About Haiti and Haitians

295 - Why Winning the Ukrainian War Matters More than Ever

294 - Taking the War to Moscow: Washington Needs to Stop Micromanaging

293 - How to Win Elections with Ease: Kidnap, Detain, Imprison, Brutalize Contenders

292 - "Useful Idiots:" Russian Meddling in Our Election

291 - Expediency Triumphs: Obligations be Damned

290a - The Slaughter of the Innocents: Staving off Starvation

290 - Slaughter of the Innocents: Staving off Famine

290 - The Slaughter of the Innocents: Staving off Famine

289 - Living with the Enemy: Harmony Amid a Frozen Conflict

288 - Ending a Spreading Pandemic Means Curtailing Civil Wars

287 - How to Circumvent Western Sanctions: Russia's Supply Chain Depends on Subterfuge and Smuggling

286 - What's at Stake? Fundamental Honesty and Decency

285 - Popular Protests Ousts an Authoritarian: Can Others Elsewhere Copy?

284 - Are Assassinations Effective? Or Do They Prolong War?

283 - How to Steal an Election: The Big Lie

282 - Dueling with China to Secure Southeast Asia

281 - It Could Happen Here: The Rise of Illiberal Democracy

280 - Defending Freedom in Ukraine and Taiwan in a Madcap Time of Trump and Vance

279 - Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Perils of Greed and the Erosion of Democratic Bulwarks

278 - Isolationism and Nativism: Dangerous Retreats into Our Past

277 - The State of the World: The Need for Consummate Leadership

276 - Creeping Apartheid: The End of Palestine

275 - "Give Me the Gold Bars Later:" The Corrupt Facilitate Even More Sleaze

273 - Saving Haiti from Gangs: Another American Leap into the Security Unknown

272 - The Killing Fields of the Congo: Another Horrendous Humanitarian Tragedy

271 - Getting to Yes, II: The Globe's Most Consuming Humanitarian Crisis

270 - Getting to Yes: Ending the Bloody Wars of Our Day

269 - The Worst Drought in a Century: Feeding People When Rains Fail

268 - Elections II: Voters Object to Assaults on Democracy

267 - Elections: Voters Have Made Decisions of Enormous Consequence

266 - Can Ukraine Survive? Or Will Putin's Aggression Triumph

265 - Genocide: The Intentional Destruction of a People

264 - The Agonies of South Africa

263 - The Two State Solution: Is it Feasible?

262 - Achieving Peace in Ukraine: China Could Help

261 - A Palestinian State? The Efficacy or Not of Student Protests and Divestment

260 - Thwarting Another Genocide: The Miseries of our Time

259 - Russians Going for Gold: Undermining the U. S. in Africa

258 - At Long Last! But is Our Aid to Ukraine in Time to Counter Putin?

257 - Rejecting the King: Restoring Trust and Values

256- Winning and Losing in Autocratic Southeast Asia

255 - Keeping its Powder Dry: Israel Wins if it Holds Fire

254 - "All Skin and Bones:" War and Climate -Caused Famines on Our Watch, II

253 - "All Skin and Bones:" War-Caused Famines on our Watch, I

252 - Democratic Leanings Persist Despite Autocratic Pressures: Electoral Omens

251 - Ukraine Destroyed: Russians Taking Over

250 - The Corruption Scourge Resurfaces in Ever Vigilant Singapore

249 - The World's Largest Democracy Subverts Democracy

248 - House Republicans Enable Putin and Jeopardize Ukrainians Just to Save Trump

247 - "African People Deserve Better:" The Ravages of Kleptocratic Leadership

246 - Who Can Knock Heads Hard? Will Washington or Ottawa Rescue Haiti?

245 - Beating Back Gang Violence in Haiti

244 - Two Years of Torture: World War III Still Threatens

243 - Winning the Gaza War

242 - Continuing Carnage: Africa's Destruction, III

241 - Continuing Carnage: Africa's Destruction, II

240 - Continuing Carnage: Africa's Destruction, I

239 - The Butcher of Sochi

238 - Shaking the Foundations of World Order until they Fracture: Seismic Disasters

237 - Honoring the Rule of Law: Too Often in the Breach

236 - The Fifth Column that Sabotages our Democratic Roots and Compromises Global Freedom

235 - The Immigrant Achilles Heel: Bad News and Good

234 - Hope Emerges for Anticorruption in the Americas

233 - Ukraine: A Winning War Plan

232 - The Devastating Decline of Trust and Civility: World Order Falls Apart

231 - Feed the Hungry Children: Israel Needs New Tactics

230 - A Helpful Breakthrough in the Horn of Africa?

229 - Can 2024 Become a Year of Peace, with Human Suffering Reduced?