Not going to take this sort of thing seriously when the US administration is so keen to do business with Russia - y'know, an actual imperialist aggressor country invading a European democracy an… (View Post)

Apparently delegates have been asking China to take a leading role at the climate negotiations in the absence of the US, but they have demurred. I think you'd struggle to get China interested. (View Post)

The question for the Taiwanese is: what is Trump's price for selling out Taiwan to China? Likewise Japan and South Korea. All three countries have large incentives to establish a nuclear deterre… (View Post)

During WWI and WWII the UK ran budget deficits of ~25-30% of GDP. UK GDP is today about $3.6tn, so 25% of UK GDP would be $900bn. Per year. So about eight times the annual support provided to Ukraine… (View Post)

There's a shortage of housing in Ukraine, because of the destruction wrought by Russia, and because many Ukrainians won't want to return to areas occupied by Russia, so it would be very har… (View Post)