The outcome of virtually all sanctions is to make us feel good about ourselves. It's very difficult to find cases of examples of them stopping, or even slightly deterring, mad dictators, and the… (View Post)

I don't think it'll make much difference if we sanction 490,000. Supplying weapons, training and intelligence is what counts, and that's where we've been a world leader. The rest … (View Post)

Corbyn, or virtually anybody in the 2019 Labour leadership, would undoubtedly have been about a billion times worse. And I don't think Starmer has covered himself in glory, calling on us to ban … (View Post)

This is the russified Tory Party that has trained 22,000 Ukrainian soldiers and provided them with thousands of lethal weapons over the last eight years? I think the main lesson from this conflict is… (View Post)

That's your career as an insane megalomaniac dictator over then. (View Post)