What's the policy goal here? Because if the best hope is a palace coup, you want to be sure to leave an offramp, if not for Putin, at least for the other people in the palace. (View Post)

I wonder if the Chinese are starting to regret getting in the crackhead uber. (View Post)

Politically this is the same problem they (and Biden) had with Afghanistan: The voters want refugees when the crisis is the main thing in the news, but at some point they'll get bored with the s… (View Post)

This makes me wonder how the Cold War rules hold up when faced with weapons that are basically robots. Like traditionally NATO and the Soviets avoid fighting each other directly because that's W… (View Post)

'Scuse the retweeting but It works politically, doesn't it? All the politicians can get photographed patriotically wearing nice woolly jumpers, also helps with inflation and so forth, saves… (View Post)