In short: Yes to most of that. It will take a very long time for Russia´s neighbours not to fear and hate them, but with the scale of the economic and demographic collapse no beginning, the outlook i… (View Post)

With the front now 20 km further east from Lyman and supplies cut off, then the situation for the Russians is desperate. Fighting now in Kreminna shows a total collapse of the line, as was suggested … (View Post)

Things moving fast around Lyman, Russian sources saying Ukrainians have pushed at least 15 km beyond the town and there is a certain amount of Russian panic that they cannot seal the line. As Lyman f… (View Post)

In 1955 the Federal Republic of Germany joined NATO, even though more than a third of Germany remained under Soviet occupation. The UK has already given a security guarantee to Ukraine: the Budapest … (View Post)

A Potemkin crowd for a Potemkin Hitler. The whole country is now more or less an empty theatre, and the hall of war criminals watching the farcial proceedings already knew that. In good Scots we´d ca… (View Post)