Not paying those social media handlers enough, I suppose. (View Post)

Given Oakeshott's tweet it seems likely he's going to go full QAnon over the deep state trying to silence him, shadowy figures in the establishment, etc, etc. All very tedious when it'… (View Post)

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)