From the centre-left Politico, December 4, 2022 * Why do the political elites of a nation or bloc of nations pursue courses of action they know will bring great harm to their citizens? Usually for at least two of the … Read More »
Market Insider, December 2, 2022 The war in Ukraine will see the most consequential changes since WW2. It will fundamentally alter power relationships in the world. Western dominance will be replaced by a multipolar world. Europe’s prosperity of the past … Read More »
Good question. And while we’re asking it, what about the steel mills too? What worries American diplomats is that Germany, other NATO nations and countries along the Belt and Road route understand the gains that can be made by opening … Read More »
Our European Values’: 1.21 Euro Minimum Wage in Ukraine Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking. When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in … Read More »
I’ve set out in many posts my reasons and evidence for saying a proxy war in Ukraine is being driven by US determination to retain control of a dollarised world in the face of Eurasia rising. Yes, I’ve been left … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »
When will it sink in? While the brainwashed-whose-name-is-legion dance to that Zelenski good, Putin baad number we move closer to the unthinkable than at any time, Cuba ’62 not excepted, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here’s former UK diplomat Alastair Crooke, … Read More »
Continuing the theme set earlier today, of double standards, I was alerted to a cartoon tweet by Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar. It features EC President, Ursula von der Leyen: “in the face of so much horror, Europe cannot turn away” … Read More »
This war was engineered in Washington, and could be over this afternoon should Washington make the modest concessions needed to stop it. But that’s the last thing DC desires. Ukrainians and Russians will die needlessly. Plummeting living standards in the … Read More »
Writing yesterday, February 27, on the Strategic Culture Foundation website, former UK diplomat and spy Alastair Crooke assesses Russia’s move and the West’s response. First though, a word about Mr Crooke. Says wiki: … Crooke, (born 1949) is a British … Read More »