Quite an interesting Mark Felton, about the Iranian Revolutionary Islamic State and Israel as allies launching air attacks on Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in 1980. https://www.youtube.com/… (View Post)

I pointed out how good the incumbent one was, but I think she wanted to go. (View Post)

This SKS incident sounds potentially like the Rory Stewart failed attempt to countermand that development project in Afghanistan that he thought would (and did) benefit the Taliban, when he was under… (View Post)

Urbane is a good word. But for me it's a bit "Ladies Who Lunch". And I get the feeling that when the USD stops being global reserve currency, or Hegseth is arrested on an ICC warrant g… (View Post)

FPT: That's important. It is the same as the traditional American world-ending-at-the-edge-of-the-USA silo. Even amongst USA intellectuals, to me they seem to be naive as to what is happening to… (View Post)