As I said last night, the death toll is likely to be quite high. The furious reaction in Russia is borderline insane. All sorts of stupid and counterproductive threats of the most blood curdling kind… (View Post)

I think it would be inopportune to take the risk. We must assume the worst in our planning and take steps accordingly, (View Post)

Thats next week. (View Post)

Russian Federation Navy has announced that Moskva has sunk "after being taken under tow". So it seems a good proportion of the crew has likely died. Just a quite word about Kaliningrad. Som… (View Post)

which is now mostly being spent on the massive reorganization of the FCDO rather than, you know, the wretched of the Earth. (View Post)