Day: May 16, 2026💾

Like many, I am not overly impressed by Trump’s foreign policy. But the capture of Venezuelan dictator and drug dealer Nicolás Maduro, in a mostly bloodless coupe seems like it was a positive step forward for the world, and the attempt to put maximum pressure on Cuba to liberate it from the dicatorship of Raul Castro seem like positive steps forward for global peace. Obviously, we only will know in the future years how these policy decisions play out, or if there will be a lot of backfire in our face.

Likewise, I welcome President Trump’s openness to more Chinese investment in the US Economy. There is a lot of innovation happening right now in China, their batteries and electric cars are often much ahead of what Americans have developed themselves. Maybe we don’t love the Chinese government, but we’ve learned to work with other countries with less then teller governments int he past to obtain foreign investment in the US. Like it or not, electric cars are the future, and they’re probably not coming out of Detroit. China is light-years ahead on electric cars, and if we can have an arrangement like we have with Lenovo computers, the Chinese company that took over IBM’s personal computing line but kept making them in US or with Toyota and Honda when it comes to cars, then it’s a step forward for America.

That said, color me skeptical when it comes to some of Trump’s other foreign policies, namely his adventurism in Iran. This seems like a much tougher nut to crack, and it’s not clear if he can just swoop in and fix the broken regime without taking down global supply chains and the economy. The Middle Eastern economy is much more important to the global economy then Cuba or Venezuela. Oil and oil products are so key to modern day life. And Iran doesn’t seem like we’ll be able to just swap out one bad guy for a peaceful regime thereafter. Cuba and Venezuela are a vastly different country then Iran, a massive country in heart of global oil country.