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Donald Trump: An Evaluation

Paul Craig Roberts

Donald Trump, judging by polls as of December 21, 2015, is the most likely candidate to be the next president of the US.

Trump is popular not so much for his stance on issues as for the fact that he is not another Washington politican, and he is respected for not backing down and apologizing when he makes strong statements for which he is criticized. What people see in Trump is strength and leadership. This is what is unusual about a political candidate, and it is this strength to which voters are responding.

On October 11, Iran test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel. 

The Emad, as the long-range weapon is called, is a variant of Tehran’s Shahab-3, has a range of 1,700 kilometers, and is accurate to within 500 meters, according to  Anthony Cordesman, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. For those who might have missed it, here is the clip:

Kerry’s Moscow Meeting: A Hopeful Sign?

Paul Craig Roberts

As those of you who support this website know, the deal we made is that this is your site, and it will remain up as long as you support it. Many of you have kept our bargain.

Today this website alone has hundreds of thousands of readers, and millions more from the many websites in the US and abroad that republish my columns. But only a relatively few readers financially support the website. The reluctance of Americans to support those who give them truth is one reason Americans have so little of it.

Back on September 20 (so, a full ten days before a three star Russian general strolled into the US Embassy in Baghdad to let the US know that airstrikes in Syria “start in 1 hour”), we said that the US strategy in Syria had officially unraveled. 

As regular readers are no doubt aware, the US has done a lot of really silly things over the course of the last four or so years in Syria.