Who says they'd go for Kyiv again (outside of a small feint meant to fix the sizeable Kyiv defence)? It would make far more sense to make a lunge towards Rivne then Ternopil (both about 200k pop… (View Post)

Wrt the Boris book 'debate', it'll easily sell 5,000 copies, and almost certainly do that number 10 times over. You'd have to be on crack to think otherwise. (View Post)

I also get the feeling that people are ready for boring. In good times you want an exciting PM offering exciting progress, in bad times a boring safe pair of hands is far more appealing. I'm on … (View Post)

Devastating to see how much most Russians support their government - some people I formerly considered mates who I stayed with, and drank with, pre-Rona when watching Russian rugby and were perfectly… (View Post)

Haha, it's just pathetic. From day 90 they lost all drive and all policy was focused on survival. While I don't like BJ, I don't think he's acquitted himself that terribly from wa… (View Post)