That would make an excellent billboard poster for Labour. (View Post)

The war is now unwinnable for Putin. Even an unlikely military victory, eventually taking all of Ukraine over several months and installing a puppet government would be a strategic loss. Because the … (View Post)

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)