That’s the problem. So many people on the right have persuaded themselves that living in a flawed, but free and prosperous democracy, is the worst fate that can befall a nation. It used to be the far… (View Post)

It's a very old trope, likely dating from Tacitus' Germania. The idea that people who live in terrible circumstances, who are both subject to, and dish out, unbridled cruelty, make great so… (View Post)

The alt.right view somehow translates that as Ukraine is the aggressor and/or a quasi-racist belief that Russia’s soldiers are ubermenschen.. (View Post)

What is “stupid”, in terms of pure, cold-blooded, realpolitik, about bleeding Russia of men, money, and armoured vehicles? It’s what people like Kissinger, Talleyrand, Palmerston etc. would have done… (View Post)

If you were a young working class white man, at almost any period in our history, the elites had a far lower opinion of you than they do today. Yet, millions fought bravely for their country Our prob… (View Post)