Saideman's Semi-Spew

 I have been thinking about this for quite some time, and I have a few half-written blog posts addressing the G word: is the Gaza operation ...

It has been one of those travel days, and since I am traveling alone, I can't vent with anyone, so I will vent here. To be clear, I had ...

I finally made it to Africa.  Five years ago, I had plans to go to the International Sociology Association's meeting in Stellanbosch, So...

 Or perhaps we can call it a polite fiction.  What am I talking about?  Today, the leaders of NATO countries met and agreed to .... very lit...

 I was at a side event for the NATO Summit tonight--a nightcap roundtable that featured a German government spokesperson, the Deputy Prime M...

Yesterday, I ended up posting the same meme as a few months ago and wondered why I posted it the first time:  And then I realized: Trump hit...

 As Pride month is upon us and as folks are still learning the wrong lessons from the last election, I realized I had tweeted and skeeted mu...

Trump is putting his most expensive fantasy into the 51st state bullshit machine.  This is quite predictable, even as the US Ambassador to ...

 Today, we held an event at Carleton to discuss the upcoming NATO summit at the The Hague. We were asked by the Dutch Ambassador to do so, a...

 The Golden Dome scheme is going to be such a disaster on so many levels that I am compelled to listicle: It won't work.  That is, there...

 The friends of Tapper are doing their best to promote his book, even suggesting that the Dems will be evaluated in 2028 based on where they...

 A friend on social media suggested that Trump has crossed multiple Rubicons, which got me thinking. To start, the reference is to Caesar wh...

 The past two days I had the honor/honour to talk civil-military relations (some in the room called political-mil or mil-pol) with pretty mu...

Coming home to Canada days before the election, and, on the drive from the airport, I saw plenty of Poilievre and Carney signs.  But not bec...