A clammy thaw here in Tallinn, which means that the soft ground of the Pripyat marshes, 600 miles south of here are also getting more difficult for armoured columns to get across. The "exercises… (View Post)

Except that sanctions don´t work. So if you actually want to stop Putin, then you have to *actually* stop him: deterrence must be credible. If Lithuania is not defended then NATO is finished, because… (View Post)

The blockade of Ukraine by the Russian naval forces seems to have begun. Despite promises to Macron and indeed to Truss, there seems to be no stopping the Russian determination to launch a war in Ukr… (View Post)

OK "Nats" are "the parties that advocate Scottish independence", and while I appreciate that you left the SNP it is still a reasonable short hand. Your point about "living st… (View Post)

There you go again... It is not the case that any of the CEE states has yet acheived economic numbers anywhere close to the UK, and I have been involved in this region for over 40 years in one way or… (View Post)