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Category Archives: ukraine war

Meet USAF Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski

24 Dec

I’ve tried in idle moments to draw up a list of female gamekeepers turned poacher. Contrary to the useful idiocies of identity politics, Facebook’s Frances Haugen does not qualify. One who emphatically does is GCHQ’s Katharine Gun (not be confused … Read More »

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Germany’s woes are Europe’s

23 Dec

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 »

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Will EU expel its Ukrainian draft dodgers?

22 Dec