Thinking it less a gamble than what salesfolk call a kick-in, first Angela Merkel then Olaf Scholz rolled the dice and lost. Calculating that Russia would swiftly be defeated, followed by regime change in Moscow, Germany obediently committed to the … Read More »
Israel is killing children at a historic rate, is killing an unprecedented number of journalists, and is starving half a million civilians while raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp. No part of this is complicated. No part of this is two-sided. Caitlin … Read More »
This (abridged) from The Economist, August 10 2023: The numbers of war dead are a secret in Ukraine but we get a sense of the scale from the rapidly expanding military cemeteries in every town. At Lychakiv cemetery, space quickly … Read More »
In yesterday’s post – After the war, can Russia win the peace? – I wrote … Western ruling elites have shown repeatedly that Russia cannot trust them: America’s through a thousand deeds and utterances to the effect they recognise no friendship, … Read More »
After all that has gone down, even if the Kremlin is inclined through enlightened self interest to magnanimity, I can’t see the man on the Moscow omnibus buying it. A month ago I wrote that: Ukraine stands exhausted and mortally … Read More »
The Armed Forces of Ukraine walked into this section. It is small – about 1,200 metres long and some 300 metres wide. I do not even understand why they are doing this – they are simply pushing their people into … Read More »
In the early hours of today on his substack leading voice of the political realist school, John Mearsheimer poured out the impotent outrage so many of us are experiencing: Death and Destruction in Gaza I do not believe that anything … Read More »
I can envisage no scenario in which things do not get much worse, in the west at least, before they get better. Broken: the implicit contract between ruler and ruled Washington and its criminally complicit allies didn’t have to lose their … Read More »
It’s tempting I know. The horrors are indescribable, yet describe them we must. To face them is sickening, yet face them we must. To bear witness in the full knowledge we can do nothing – so much for the democracy … Read More »
The Daily Mail caption reads: “Footage shared by Israeli media appears to show IDF troops rounding up scores of men and transporting them on the back of trucks” Following my last post but one, here’s a little more on those … Read More »