Each of the dictatorships brings its own particular destructive skillset to the table. The whole is greater and more dangerous than the sum of its parts. Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy Inc captures the p… (View Post)

The US ceased the draft in 1973, at which time Barack Obama was 12. A little young to be “dodging” conscription. Very soon this will become moot. Gen X leaders were all born too late for it to be rel… (View Post)

I’m permanently in the never underestimate the Tories camp. The pressure is off them now, and the opinion polling - notably those “vote against” data yesterday - shows the British voter starting to s… (View Post)

A security guarantee Ukraine has to pay for. Protection money. (View Post)

Ukraine has really had a shitty time of it. One of the most dumped-on nations in history. Decimated by deliberate famine under Stalin, one of the biggest sources of war dead in WW2, under the Soviet … (View Post)