The red line has to be NATO states. In many ways it is arbitrary, meaningless, and incredibly unfair to Ukraine, yet it has been drawn and respected for decades. Putin understands its importance, hen… (View Post)

The West needs to start treating the Russian threat as equivalent to that of Covid-19 at the outset of the pandemic. That means mass government spending, subsidies and encouragement of green energy, … (View Post)

Hard to make people surrender their country. Think of how many we lost in previous wars, most of which (e.g. excluding WWII) were much less existential than this is for Ukraine. But we should help th… (View Post)

It's important that our actions stay on the right side of 'not starting war with Russia'. No fly zones sound benign to a layperson, but are in fact a military promise to shoot down as … (View Post)

It has given hackers a target they have free rein over without any risk of legal consequences. They seem to be embracing the challenge! (View Post)