My third in a row on the overreach of the mediocrities managing with breath-taking ineptitude the West’s accelerating decline. Below yesterday’s post – see Europe aside, the world wants Trump – Bryan commented: Mark Sleboda worries that a Trump presidency … Read More »
I have my differences with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris. As I said in yesterday’s post, “I find them a tad soft on Trump [but] even that’s a welcome change from the absurdities of pro Democrat media both sides of … Read More »
Guardian, July 9 2024 Let’s start with the hypocrisy. Gordon Brown, in Tuesday’s Guardian, wants Vladimir Putin in the dock for war crimes. This from a senior member of a government whose lies led Britain into an illegal war which … Read More »
In a footnote to yesterday’s post I wrote that: Michael Hudson has likened US-led efforts to shore up Western hegemony to the Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus Rex. While thinkers from Freud on have looked to its eponymous hero for insights on the … Read More »
I thought the Green Party “Defence” Minister of Germany’s ruling coalition a singularly stupid warmonger till I discovered Smirnoff vodka. It turns out she’s all the while been playing a brilliant 5-D chess game, only now delivering fool’s mate in … Read More »
Don’t be fooled by the title, “Russia is DESTROYING Ukraine’s Army”. It’s misleading. And not because Russia isn’t doing precisely that but because this video is about something else. Don’t be fooled either by Scott Ritter’s folksy manner. In just … Read More »
Well it happened, more or less. Recall my opening words to a June 3 post, sardonically entitled The military genius of The Economist: This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will … Read More »
Are the stewards steering the imperial ship beginning to panic? Take the three hottest arenas of global tension. On Russia’s southwest border the US proxy war is not going at all to plan. That Ukraine is losing does not greatly … Read More »
They might surrender, but I don’t think we should count on it. The Sundance Kid Remember that line, from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid? The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang have sprayed the middle of nowhere with bank notes from the excessively … Read More »
So, these conditions are very simple. Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Moreover, I emphasize, precisely from the entire territory of these regions within their administrative boundaries, which existed … Read More »