When going to war, even by proxy, underestimating your enemy can be catastrophic. One of its commonest causes is buying your own propaganda, yet the high stewards who run the West on behalf of its creditor oligarchs have done precisely … Read More »
While genning up for a future post, on whether the pace of dollar decline is being overstated by worthy but wishful thinkers, I found this, posted today on the substack of Simplicius. To the backdrop of the three day G7 … Read More »
Great post from Caitlin today, skewering with her customary withering eloquence no fewer than five industrial scale whoppers: There’s been a massive upsurge in anti-Semitism within “the Left” since October 7. Liberal politicians promoting this “upsurge” are genuinely alarmed, and … Read More »
Reuters headlines of June 10 (above) and June 9 Alexander Mercouris is too well informed on Ukraine and Middle East, and too lucidly nuanced in his reasoning, to be ignored on so trifling a ground as his fondness for the … Read More »
It’s good to be back in Sheffield. These pix were snapped today on my phone while we took in Burbage Rocks, Carl Wark and Higger Tor on a short clockwise constitutional, ten minutes from Steel City House. * * *
You may be sick of seeing the image below. I must have used it at least twenty times. Truth be told I’m sick of it myself but it’s just too damned useful … … it sheds too much instantaneous light … Read More »
In the interests of brevity, clarity and simplicity there’s much I left out of my list yesterday of provocations that Guardian writer Patrick Wintour, in his hair-raising warmongering on June 8, chose to ignore. I didn’t mention for instance that in … Read More »
This Saturday’s Guardian ran a Ukraine piece by Patrick Wintour. At over 3,000 words it had a broad enough canvas to set out vital context for a proxy war the US is losing and on that count desperate enough, with … Read More »
Has it occurred to [Economist editor] Simon Long that while [ATACMS aimed at Crimea] will up the death count, they won’t put a dent in the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat [or] that Russia, besides taking out Ukraine’s entire power supply, … Read More »
Hen Mazzig: I do understand why this conflict raises a lot of emotions I think we need to focus on reality and I understand especially when you are Jewish or Palestinian or Arab why you feel so connected to this … Read More »