When have you ever apologised for the many, many times you have been wrong? (View Post)

They went to war for their own immediate survival rather than for any great philosophical ideals. (View Post)

But the Putin appeaser/Chamberlain analogy is accurate - or at least there isn a good chance it is. If Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine then there is every likelhood he will look to other countrie… (View Post)

That will always be the case. At the most extreme, starving, penniless people have little interest in democracy and this is just a milder version of that. It has ever been such since the birth iof th… (View Post)

For all of you bewildered as to why Trump won again and so comprehensively, perhaps I can crave your indulgence and repost the link to the article I wrote for PB on the Trump phenomena back in early … (View Post)