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Opinion | Trump vs. Israel vs. Iran

1 week ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

About this article“Business World” deals with business and the world in which business finds itself. It is aimed at readers who know that public matters are seldom straightforward and are curious for explanations. It's published online Tuesday and Friday evenings, and in the Wednesday and Saturday newspaper editions. Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
Opinion | Boeing’s Troubles Are America’s Troubles

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

In a dangerous world, the U.S. might take a stronger hand to keep the defense giant on track. I was talking to Joe Sutter, legendary Boeing 747 designer, not long after a Northwest DC-9 crashed on takeoff in Detroit in 1987, killing everyone aboard except a 4-year-old girl. We were batting around the results of airline deregulation, then less than a decade old.
Opinion | Trump and Edward R. Murrow

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

How to miss everything interesting about the Trump phenomenon. Bad decisions compound. It didn’t get much notice, but a shift of 115,000 votes in three states would have elected Kamala Harris, an outcome easy to imagine if you replay the election without border issues. One revelation from CNN’s Jake Tapper has been that Joe Biden’s Homeland Security secretary took office believing he would soon be getting marching orders to take control of illegal immigration.
Opinion | Men and Women Behaving Badly in Trump-CBS Case

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Look away from Mr. Trump’s garish self indulgence and see how low the network news has sunk. Even J. Pierpont Morgan in his heyday might have lacked the nerve to do what needs doing now. That’s provide financing to help struggling CBS-parent Paramount Global fight off a meritless Trump lawsuit without endangering its merger hopes. Maybe if George Soros hadn’t already donated most of his billions to his personal foundation, but let’s be happy with the cast of characters we’ve got.
WSJ: UFOd on Ukrainast

3 weeks ago | wallstreetjournal.postimees.ee | Holman Jenkins

Teine reaktsioon oli mul loota, et nende rünnakute plaanimisse ja täideviimisse olid tihedalt kaasatud USA ja tema liitlased. Tõeliselt transformeeriv väljavaade oleks USA ja liitlaste selge signaal Vladimir Putinile, et asi läheb liiga kalliks ja aeg on asju arutada. Tegelikult oli USA valitsus ju drooniriskist täiesti teadlik.
【オピニオン】UFOとウクライナ無人機攻撃

3 weeks ago | jp.wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

ドローンの脅威を無視した米国、標的がロシアだったのは幸運　駐機中のロシア軍用機に対するウクライナのドローン攻撃をトロイの木馬以来の軍事的発見のように扱う論評の洪水を見て、筆者は最初「やれやれ」と思った。米国は軍事戦術のこうした転換について、自国での出来事によって何度も警告を受けていた。筆者は2月、米国にとってかけがえのない戦略爆撃機「B52」の多くが配備されているバークスデール空軍基地の指導部から、ドローンの脅威への対策を講じているとの言質を取り付けた。　筆者の二つ目の反応は、この攻撃（さらには翌日の、ロシアにとって重要なクリミア大橋へのウクライナの攻撃）の計画と実行に、米国と同盟国が深く関与していたことが明らかになってほしかった、というものだ。真に状況を一変させる可能性があるのは、米国とその同盟国がロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領に対し、これ以上の進展は見込めず、今後は代償が大きくなるだけであり、和解すべきだとの明確なメッセージを送ることである。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Opinion | The UFOs Are Ukrainian

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

The U.S. ignored the drone threat. It got lucky when that threat blew up in Russia’s face rather than our own. “Hoo boy” was my first reaction to the outpouring of commentary treating a Ukrainian drone attack on parked Russian aircraft as the greatest military revelation since the Trojan horse. The U.S. had been warned, warned, warned and warned by events on its own shores of this turn in military tactics.
Opinion | Governments Face a Choice on AI

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Worry less about a robot takeover, more about improving lousy decision-making. Artificial-intelligence agents will need robots before they can do away with humans. This strikes me as the weak reed of many doom scenarios. Still Donald Trump might want to rest up. He could face big decisions before his term is ended. That’s the advice coming from a large cross-section of Silicon Valley, lately expressed in a tick-tock of AI doom by Daniel Kokotajlo and colleagues at the AI Futures Project.
Opinion | Trump’s Money Grabs Don’t Threaten the Republic

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

But his big, beautiful bill plus the incompetence of his Democratic and media opposition might. The worm is turning. The courts are starting to take away his self-awarded power to tax Americans (in defiance of the Constitution) with random tariff announcements. His immigration theatrics are being overturned. Donald Trump may have court-sanctified civil and criminal immunity for official acts. His business associates and family members don’t.
Opinion | Trump’s Emcee Act Fails in Ukraine

1 month ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

By now, even Russia must wish the White House had a strategy it could work with. If you’re Vladimir Putin, how can you sign a cease-fire deal when there seems a chance, if you refrain from signing, that Donald Trump will cut off Ukraine’s military supplies and instantly transform Russia’s negotiating position for the better? You can’t. Even Trump officials probably understand why this consideration has made a successful negotiation structurally impossible. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.