Yes. The Conservatives have made it worse for themselves but the German SPD and Canadian Liberals are in similar positions. (View Post)

China is a failing imperial power, as its population falls. (View Post)

And none of them are able to prevent Russia’s strategic defeat in Ukraine. Russia is too weak to be a hegemonic power. (View Post)

The bad joke is that the Japanese invasion of South East Asia netted them *three* shipments of oil from the conquered territories There never was a Japanese war strategy. The Kwantung Army was defeat… (View Post)

Putin sees the former USSR and Warsaw Pact as rebellious Russian colonies, not as sovereign nations. You may think that is a legitimate viewpoint. I don’t. More pertinently, why should Russia be give… (View Post)