There has been much unwise talk of offering an 'off ramp' for Putin. However we should have done a lot more to promote the idea of an off ramp for Russia. One analysis I saw showed that a lot of Russ… (View Post)

I'm referring to the Biden administration. (View Post)

So a result in the cricket seems likely. According to the cliche, Americans don't understand games that end in a draw. However it increasingly seems like that is what they want out of the Russia/Ukra… (View Post)

It's 603,000 km2 including Crimea I believe. I imagine part of the reason the Ukrainians haven't immediately committed all their stuff to the new offensive is they don't trust their western partners … (View Post)

Sorry that's ludicrous. We would have been much worse affected by the 2008 financial crisis and it would have been much harder to solve given the size of the banking and financial sector in the UK. W… (View Post)