I see that the Ukraine-led team defeated the other team in recent NATO naval exercises. Europe needs Ukraine as much as the other way around. There armed forces seem to be many steps ahead of Europe&… (View Post)

The two most interesting results to me in the polling are: 1. That Green voters are so easily swayed by use of the prefix "wild" before rabbits. 2. That for an island nation the watery opti… (View Post)

Meanwhile Russian social media has started pushing the fictitious existence of a People's Republic of Narva in Eastern Estonia, a direct copy of the tactics in the Donbas in 2014. There's n… (View Post)

Dissent is the essence of democracy. (View Post)

In Ireland people are quite proud of the basketball and keepy-uppy skills of their new President. It's not what I thought Presidential politics was going to be like, but a country could do worse. (View Post)