When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month off the north west coast of Australia; France and China a … Read More »
Sky News: June 1, 2025 Ukraine’s drone strikes at Russian airbases on Sunday will, says the comedian turned president whose term expired a year ago, “undoubtedly be for the history books”. As was the charge of the Light Brigade. A … Read More »
Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »
In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »
I’m still on the theme of EC President Ursula von der Leyen’s preposterous warmongering of March 4: [Is] Europe ready and able to act with the speed and ambition needed? … The answer from European capitals has been as resounding … Read More »
Everybody’s shouting: which side are you one? – Bob Dylan Let me also restate my opinion, argued in posts like this, that despite a tone markedly different from that of his predecessors, Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either … Read More »
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) March 6, 2025: front door in the English village of Sutton Bonington. … Read More »
* Eight days ago ago the European Commission, executive body of the EU, issued a statement by its president, Ursula von der Leyen. This is its opening paragraph: We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I … Read More »
Short follow up to my previous post, on Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office. That focused on rebutting the absurd but wall-to-wall promoted thesis of gallant Kiev, having done nothing but mind its own business – if we leave aside … Read More »
It is impossible for a rational person acquainted with even a fraction of the relevant facts, and acting in good faith, to do other than conclude that Russia was intentionally provoked to the point where her special military operation in the … Read More »