The funny thing is that waging war to seize natural resources or key industries is almost always more expensive than just purchasing the stuff. The Japanese finished up with three shiploads of oil, f… (View Post)

The USSR certainly presented itself as developed, and yet it made extensive use of slave labour, in the 20th century. Likewise modern China. The Russian/Soviet version of the Manifest Destiny was eve… (View Post)

file:///C:/Users/Sean/Downloads/Deltapoll-250318_trackers.pdf Deltapoll has Con 25%, Labour 25%, Reform 23%, Lib Dem 11%. The forced choice has Con 35%, Lab 35%. (View Post)

Mocking and criticising the Reagans, Clintons, and Bushes now seems ridiculously self-indulgent. (View Post)

There’s a lot of malice and resentment, driving DOGE. In part, resentment that the natural order of things was overturned in 1865. (View Post)