My general impression is that Crimean Tartars are roughly analogous to the Welsh. They don't see themselves as Russian or Ukrainian from an ethnic point of view, but they're mostly not in f… (View Post)

This sort of thing should allow democracies to outperform China, but in democracies these sorts of warnings are made repeatedly by economists and then simply ignored. Ireland, for example, is being r… (View Post)

This is a complicated question, complicated further by Russian attempts since 2014 to Russify the territory by encouraging Russians to move there and being hostile to the Crimean Tartars. I would say… (View Post)

Acquiescing to Farage on the basis of him being a lesser evil is the very definition of defeatism. (View Post)

Ukraine claims to have hit 10 Russian ships in the Sea of Azov overnight. 8 fuel tankers, 1 cargo ship and a ferry. At least some of them were successful enough to be picked up by the NASA FIRMS syst… (View Post)