Do-Over Do-It-Worse Diplomacy; The Council of Blood Reborn; World Leaders vs. Trump G7 Edition & More - Week of 8th of June 2025
Weekly affairs from the frontlines of modern Humanism.
Weekly affairs from the frontlines of modern humanism. What The Medici would've tallied. What the Davos set should. A highlight of bold letters from the bureaus of brains, balance, and big ideas.
THE MEDICI COURTYARD CHATTER
What a century this week has been, Humanists. Let’s try and catch our collective breaths and center ourselves on what Cosimo would deem categorically consequential.
Do-Over Do-It-Worse Diplomacy: How White House Hubris Haunts This Hollow JCPOA Sequel
He began with bombast: dismantling the architecture of arms control in the name of strength. He ends in the same room he left in a fit of pique, as he proposes virtually the same concessions he once scorned—except his adversary has far accelerated. This is the Trump Doctrine in action—tear down the deal, torch the treaty, then tiptoe back in with a flimsier framework and a swaggering smirk. Call it the Do-Over Do-It-Worse Diplomacy, a tired pageant of provocation and retreat that has left America’s allies aghast, its adversaries amused, and the rest of the world warily watching the unraveling of U.S. credibility.
When Donald Trump tore up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, he declared the accord a “disaster” and a “surrender,” a badge of weakness pinned by Barack Obama onto America’s proud chest.
The Council of Blood Reborn: Tools of Tyranny In The Time of Tweets
The streets of Los Angeles are no stranger to marches. They have seen everything from farmworkers seeking fair wages to students seeking sanctuary. But in June 2025, those streets bore witness to a different kind of march—of marching boots. federalized National Guard troops and masked militarized ICE forces, summoned by the monarch of Mar-a-Lago, filed in to crush a crowd that demanded nothing more than human dignity and rule of law due process.
FROM THE UFFIZI ARCHIVES: World Leaders vs. Trump G7 Edition
In Choosing Carney, Canadians Conjure the Competence & Quality of the Renaissance
Choosing Carney is choosing competence over chaos. Carney isn’t just balancing books—he’s bending the arc of commerce.
Macron Il Magnifico: Europe’s Latest or Last Humanist Leader?
There are presidents. There are patrons. Then there are the rare breed of both.
