For those with an interest in Sweden and its relationship with NATO, this is a very interesting thread. I didn't realise quite how closely linked with NATO the Swedes actually are. Extract: "In … (View Post)

Eh? I did everything for the coherence of the West. Seven years later the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. (View Post)

Is not the big problem here that the whole Putin schtick is about being revenged for the national humiliation of the break-up of the USSR and all that followed? And now he's faced with the Mother Of … (View Post)

Thought experiment. Any major Western leader performed better than BJ so far? Any country's reputation been burnished more than UK? Scholz/Germany? Macron/France? Draghi/Italy? Biden/US? (View Post)

I think you should go and have a lie down, Stuart. And take your bottle with you. (View Post)