The US has benefitted enormously from being world policeman since 1949. The way the world works serves their economic and power-political interests. (View Post)

In, and of, itself, I don’t object to that. It’s the announcement of talks, and of concessions, pre-talks, and that Ukraine will not join NATO, that shows extreme weakness. If I were an East Asian al… (View Post)

What strikes me about Trump and his clique is how self-defeating they are. They talk about making America great, when all that they’re doing is retreating before people who hate America. That’s where… (View Post)

If the USA has conceded that Ukraine and the Baktics and Moldova belong to Russia then that transforms European politics. But, not in a good way. (View Post)

Matthew Parris can never help but reveal his disdain for the lower classes (ever snice he was Mrs. Thatcher's secretary, and wrote a letter purportedly on her behalf to a council tenant, who was… (View Post)