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 Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »