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)

Some Russian sources saying the Lyman pocket is now sealed. Perhaps 2000 troops now cut off. Large surrender underway soon, Seems like other areas are also in trouble and the deployment of the new co… (View Post)

A few developments after Putin´s ridiculous rant this morning. A few comments from a Russian friend: The faces on the people in the audience during the speech. Holy shit. I think everyone there is fe… (View Post)

FWIW there is growing sense among people who deal with Russia on a daily basis that if this (frankly laughable) attempt to annex territory they don´t control does not stop the war within a few weeks,… (View Post)