Barty is a pirate at heart, as his moniker suggests. (View Post)

Interesting US polling on Venezuela. WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - One in three* Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country's president and 72% worry the… (View Post)

Oh, I don't disagree with that, as you know from my recent commentary. And our common interests are more with Europe than with the US, whatever our personal beliefs might be; that's simple … (View Post)

That's not entirely true. The Northern European countries have certainly done the funding bit (to the extent that we've gone from being NATO's 3rd highest spender to something like 12t… (View Post)

They are extrapolating from the apparent ease of the Venezuela venture, and the very muted response of European leaders to it, I think. That a notion is absurd hasn't exactly deterred the Trump … (View Post)