So does that apply to Trump's win in 2024 ? One pattern that does appear time and time again is that governments lose when enough people think they have failed. (View Post)

One of the mysteries has been why so many right wingers have been pro-Putin. Its not as if they didn't know that an expansionist, militarised, authoritarian Russia was a threat to their own coun… (View Post)

It does make me wonder if the Soviet Union would have done better if it had spent a miniscule fraction of its military spending on instead bribing western politicians. Perhaps they tried to but we ha… (View Post)

I predict a quick shift from "Iran blockading Hormuz is great because it humiliates Trump" to "Trump blockading Hormuz is wicked because of all the people who will die". (View Post)

That depends on what the police decide to spend their resources on. Having even more plods patrolling through the wilds of twatterland would be unlikely to make the streets safer. You'd be on st… (View Post)