The thing is, if it was less obviously unreasonable there is scope for the US to pressure Ukraine to accept a bad deal. But by over-reaching so far, it makes it much easier to reject the surrender de… (View Post)

Apparently the surrender plan even includes a restriction on Ukrainian diplomatic flights. A piss-take doesn't even start to do it justice. (View Post)

I guess if they repaint the parking bays to give more space for today's much larger cars, then they'd reduce the number of cars which would help to balance out the increase in weight of eac… (View Post)

And we haven't avoided escalation. We've enabled escalation because our weakness has encouraged Russia to escalate. It's been the most self-defeating policy failure. (View Post)

China provide all the components for lots of the latest drones that Russia is making. They have increased their tangible support to Russia a lot this year. (View Post)