After a very late spring the Baltic is having a very pleasant summer. It is comfortably warm, today 24, and so sparking more use of the untranslatable Finnish word kalsarikänit- roughly meaning sitti… (View Post)

I think we need to remember that Trump has been elected twice. We can no longer rely on the United States (View Post)

Megaton range hydrogen weapons require a decent amount of tritium, which is extremely expensive- roughly $30,000 per gram. If you were, for example, a moderately corrupt Russian General, the temptati… (View Post)

Also it assumes that Ukraine is the only demand that Putin has against the international system, which is not the case. The more serious problem is that Putin is riding the tiger: if the war stops, h… (View Post)

So the fallback has been the appeasement of Trump. Ultimately that won't work, particularly if he does any kind of deal with Putin. So Europe is re-arming to make sure that if the US betrays Europe-o… (View Post)