The big Russian pendulum is high up on the Slavophile side now. Gorbachev was a westerniser like Peter. Meanwhile in the west, the big pendulum has similarly swung away from globalism. A US-Russian s… (View Post)

Trump has demanded $1.32 trillion in reparations for an invasion that happened 80 years ago, and the Polish government is demanding that the German government hand over the Hillary emails that were a… (View Post)

A lot of what people say about Johnson is influenced by what they think about Trump, even though the men and their environments differ enormously. It was said that Johnson would be clinging on to the… (View Post)

Okay, this is the challenge: find a respected sovietologist or international relations head or statesman (not some nutter who thought e.g. that the Sino-Soviet split was fake) who wrote at some time … (View Post)

Girls, please! Fingernails in! (View Post)