It's hard to know what is going on. There's one report of two Russian battalions being encircled in Sudzha, but it's hard to take seriously because there have been so many such reports… (View Post)

I think a fair amount of second hand books donated to charity shops end up being sold on to online outfits that have the scale to sell unpopular books to the rare people who want them. You might be a… (View Post)

One thing the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk does is make a mockery of Western fears of Russian responses to escalation. Ukraine is occupying sovereign Russian territory, within the internationally-reco… (View Post)

I think this take is spectacularly wrong. The West needs a quick victory in Ukraine. Growing numbers of citizens of European democracies in particular want Ukrainian refugees to be able to go home, a… (View Post)

What do people think about the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast? Suggestions from Russian military blogger channels that the Ukrainians are making continuing advances, destroying Russian equipme… (View Post)