I knew I could rely on @Malmesbury to get to the nub of the issue. (View Post)

The common thread is not the race of victim or perpetrator, it is that women and girls, as witnesses to crimes of sexual violence committed against themselves, are too often not treated as credible o… (View Post)

Yes. It is possible. But Russia rather demonstrated its unwillingness to stick to the Minsk agreements in 2022, did it not? Perhaps we should learn from that experience rather than repeat the mistake… (View Post)

Only internal change in Russia can make us truly safe in the long-term. In the meantime, we have to make sure that the leaders of Russia are more scared of us than we are of them, that they understan… (View Post)

It's not really assumptions, it's willful blindness about the opinions of the people who were living in Eastern Ukraine at the start of the war, and who are now suffering under Russian occu… (View Post)