Given that the Hard Brexit policy is so closely identified with Boris Johnson personally, I did idly wonder if the collapse of his own popularity had contaminated the Brexit brand. Then I remembered … (View Post)

They did not win the Cold War and had a a much larger nuclear force then. (View Post)

That is a fair analysis. As for Nukes, the same equation as in the Cold War holds: will the other side fire? The Russians understand that the risk is very high that NATO and possibly even China would… (View Post)

While across Europe there are determined attempts to restrict the flow of energy from Russia, here in Estonia we have just seized over 2 tonnes of Cocaine headed the other way. The shutters have come… (View Post)

One of the reasons the Putinists keep suggesting that the "special operation" is a war by proxy with NATO is because they do not beleive that any one who resists them has an independent age… (View Post)