Reg is a writer, teacher, and translator with an interest in social issues especially as pertains to education and matters of race, class, gender, immigration, etc.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.
[B]y lining up behind a man who has publicly denigrated their continent, those leaders ... helped validate a narrative ... of a subordinate, silent, and docile Africa.
[W]hat is extraordinary about this dynamic is that a tiny state, both in size and population, is leading the biggest player on the international stage by the nose.