We'll never know if Brexit was a tiny part of Putin's calculation, but I would think it odd if it were because it is pretty obvious that it hasn't reduced our assertiveness on the worl… (View Post)

Actually 40% or so of Scots did. Why are they never mentioned? (View Post)

Brexiteer propaganda yet again. Everybody knows that the Conservative Party is Putin's puppet, Brexit was his project and now we're out of the EU, we have to do what he says and the America… (View Post)

He can't have met many. I've spent years of my career dealing with them, and, like every unaccountable bureaucracy, what they mostly care about is justifying and increasing their own power … (View Post)

My Russian isn't what it was, but this account by a Russian soldier of his travails in Ukraine is book-length absolutely riveting:… (View Post)