My wife likes to remind me that being pedantically correct about the rules of the road will be of little comfort when you find yourself upside down in a ditch. I've seen so many middle lane hogg… (View Post)

After a ceasefire in Ukraine there would be plenty of Russian soldiers that would otherwise be causing mischief in Russian cities if not gainfully employed in war against Europe. Putin might decide t… (View Post)

The use of hunger as a weapon of war, by restricting food supplies to Gaza, would seem to me to be where Israel comes closest to an act of genocide (or where it is hardest to dispute, depending on wh… (View Post)

It would perhaps be better if we would take unlawful mass killing more seriously. It shouldn't take genocide for people to act. (View Post)

Hamas can be expected to have secured what limited food was available for their fighters, but I don't think it's seriously possible to dispute that there was a major deficit in food supplie… (View Post)