Gather 'round for the most entertaining diplomatic circus you'll ever witness! Picture this: two nations, both with leaders who have more gold-plated furniture than your average royal palace, trying to navigate international relations like two peacocks at a disco party. The Greatest Show on Earth: US-Turkey Relations in the Trump Era 2.0 Remember when Trump and Erdogan were playing diplomatic ping-pong during the first term? Oh boy, what a show! They were exchanging sanctions and tweets like teenagers exchange emojis. Trump would wake up at 3 AM, tweet something like "I'LL DESTROY YOUR ECONOMY!" and Erdogan would probably spill his Turkish coffee all over his smartphone. It was basically international relations meets reality TV, minus the Kardashians (thank heavens for small mercies). Now, as we gear up for Trump: The Sequel ( working title: "Make Alliances Confusing Again"), everyone in Turkey is oddly optimistic. Why? Because apparently, when you...
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The European Union's Guide to Surviving Your Difficult American Uncle
Ah, the European Union! That lovely collection of countries who decided that the best way to stop fighting each other was to create enough paperwork to make war seem like the easier option. Well, folks, they're about to face their biggest bureaucratic challenge yet: Trump 2.0 - This Time It's Personal(ity Politics). The European Union's Guide to Surviving Your Difficult American Uncle Picture this: You know that uncle who shows up at family reunions, criticizes everyone's life choices, demands they pay for their own meals, and then complains about nobody visiting him enough? That's about to be America's foreign policy toward Europe. The EU is frantically googling "How to deal with difficult relatives" as we speak. The US-EU relationship is about to become less "strategic partnership" and more "it's complicated" Facebook status. Gone are the days of cozy chats about shared values and mutual understanding. Now it's going ...
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The Art of the Squeal: America's Got Tariffs Season 2
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your popcorn and your economics textbooks (just kidding, nobody reads those) , because the greatest show in international relations is coming back for a second season! That's right, it's "Trump vs. Xi: Economic Boogaloo," where two world leaders compete to see who can make trade more complicated than assembly instructions from IKEA . The Art of the Squeal: America's Got Tariffs Season 2 Trump's approaching China policy with all the subtlety of a bull in a China shop – pun absolutely intended, folks. His grand strategy? Slapping tariffs on Chinese goods faster than a caffeinated toddler playing whack-a-mole. It's like trying to solve a Rubik's cube by painting all the sides the same color – technically you've made all the sides match, but you've kind of missed the point. Remember those trade wars from his first term? Well, they're getting a reboot, like every Hollywood movie nobody asked for. Trump's promisin...
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NATO's Guide to Surviving Your Ex Coming Back as Your Boss
Ah, NATO! The world's most exclusive military book club, where everyone promises to read the whole book but mostly just shows up for the snacks and gossip. Now they're facing their biggest challenge yet: Trump 2.0 - The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone's Getting Anyway. NATO's Guide to Surviving Your Ex Coming Back as Your Boss For the past year, European leaders have been trying to "Trump-proof" NATO with the same desperate energy as parents attempting to child-proof a house for a toddler who's already learned to pick locks. They were hoping they'd never have to test their defenses, kind of like how we all hope we'll never have to use those emergency airplane instructions we never read. But here we are, folks! Enter Mark Rutte, NATO's new secretary general, who's inherited the job at what we'll charitably call an "interesting" time. It's like being hired as a wedding planner the day before the bride's ex decide...
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