UKIP won 12.6% of the vote in 2015 (or 12.9% of the GB vote) and won only one seat - and that one they already held due to a defection, albeit what would have been perhaps their natural number one ta… (View Post)

But those are non-military responses - and I agree, that's very much what it would be likely to do. (View Post)

Because I doubt China would be so crass as to do a Khrushchev, for one thing. They'd start with infrastructure facilities and 'advisors' rather than outright military bases. I'm not suggesting Washin… (View Post)

A lack of willingness to defend allies encourages those allies' enemies. It's not difficult. I'm not advocating some neoCon rampage - I did actually oppose the Iraq War at the time. I am suggesting t… (View Post)

Russia's neuroses about the West are a lot less well-founded than the neuroses about Russia in, say, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova or Belarus. Or indeed the Baltic states. Or Eastern Europe. Russia had a… (View Post)