Jean-Francois Boittin

Jean-Francois Boittin is a former French diplomat and Treasury official.

After Trump’s Exit from Paris Accord: Just Sanction the Bastards!

After Trump’s exiting from the Paris Accord, no more travel freedom for all those involved in the decision-making.

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Bye Bye, Paris! Hello Centralia, Pennsylvania!

Reflections on Donald Trump’s exit from global responsibility.

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Trump at Taormina: The Odd Man Out

Imagining a G7 world, where the United States now is the rogue nation at the table, like Russia was at the G8 table!

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Bye Bye G7… Hello to The Seven Bastards

Donald Trump’s musings upon leaving Sicily after the G7 summit.

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Trump to Germany: Pay Up!

The U.S. President reflects on why Germans must be made to pay for all the wrongs they inflicted on the United States.

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Trump’s Plan for the United Soviet(!) of America

Trump is determined to “make the USA great again” — the United Soviet of America, that is.

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TPP: How Trump Abandoned a Great Deal for Corporate America

Just what is the new U.S. President so afraid about with regard to his country’s middling trade partners in Asia?

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The U.S. and the New “BR Index”

A close-up examination of whether the US is becoming a banana republic.

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First Meeting Between Trump and Putin

The scene takes place in Vladimir Putin’ s office in the Kremlin.

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Carrier “International” Gets Trumped: Global Ramifications

Is Donald Trump’s special deal for the Carrier plant in Indiana the beginning of the unraveling of the U.S.-led wave of globalization?

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