I think that Putin's Russia is more of a model than Hitler's Germany. (View Post)

The proportion of the electorate who will vote, in the GE, on the basis of local government record, is very small. (View Post)

Communism, like fascism, tends to attract psychopaths. Stalin, prior to the Revolution, was like one of those funky bandits from a Spaghetti Western. People join because they love killing, rape, robb… (View Post)

Old assumptions die hard. Many still assume that Russia has the military power of the Soviet Union in 1945. (View Post)

This is the first year of the war, in which Russia has gained nothing of even medium importance, while still taking awful casualties, and incurring vast expenditure. And the fights at Pokrovsk and Su… (View Post)