There are several licensed professions- law, finance etc- where a criminal conviction bars people from entering them at all, so even if we allow that a conviction should not bar an individual from pu… (View Post)

The "rejection" is a performance, it still leaves the Russian dictated plan as the basis for agreed capitulation, which is why it needs to be taken off the table, and which is what-bit by b… (View Post)

Actually I think it has, but the view is that the UK has burnt so many bridges that we literally cannot afford to end the US alliance. However I think that we must essentially accept the inevitable l… (View Post)

Trying to force a deal is blowing up in their faces. They will have to back off. The damage this is doing *to the US* is increasingly serious. (View Post)

A good piece, although it overlooks Russian subversion of the free world. The role of bribery and blackmail has been a significant one, and in many ways has been an important war front for the Russia… (View Post)