I'm supportive in principle of the Europe intervening directly and doing what is needed to help Ukraine win as quickly as possible, but I have my doubts as to the ability of European armies to do so.… (View Post)

Throughout the whole war Europe has been obsessed with finding an "offramp" for Putin, trying to work out what we can offer him that he would accept. They've completely misunderstood his mo… (View Post)

They'll accept it only because they'd fear that not accepting it would lead to a worse outcome, which would indicate a pessimistic assessment of their chances if the US turns against them, and the fa… (View Post)

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 and con… (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)