Yes, of course, but it doesn't even have to be a government of bad guys. The modern state is so powerful and omnipresent that, if given unnecessary or excessive power and unwatched, governments … (View Post)

Completely the wrong metric of success. The question is surely how many posts, articles and podcasts that would have been about Epstein and Trump are now about Nigeria instead. (View Post)

Wrong and offensive is pretty much everything DA writes about Ukraine. Still, in the spirit of Christmas, this site would be very boring if there weren't the odd weirdo, and I'm sure we all… (View Post)

I'm sure no-one on this site would ever be pedantic on these matters, but one can also say that the Soviet Union's week-long rout of the Japanese in Manchuria should also be included, leadi… (View Post)

I hear that Putin hates the comparison because in 1,418 days, Stalin got from Moscow to Berlin against the much more formidable Nazi army, while Putin has managed to advance about 30 miles in Donetsk… (View Post)