To me this is the rational response of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Would Russia have contemplated such a move if Ukraine had not given up its nuclear deterrent? Would the world put up with the… (View Post)

Trump and his coterie are stark raving mad and utterly immoral. Who knows what they might do in extremis? Interesting times. (View Post)

Yes, but they still need to find targets that are worth even a small fraction of the munition used to destroy them. If you believe for a moment that there are 90 such targets on Kharg Island then fai… (View Post)

Depends what you mean by "protect". If we had been maximising the production of the North Sea instead of aiming repeated rounds at our own feet we would be producing much closer to the equi… (View Post)

What remains astonishing is that this was blindingly obvious in advance to anyone who spent a couple of minutes thinking about how this was likely to develop. Just brainless. So, where do we go from … (View Post)