I think it's still a little bit too early to say what the optimal strategy for omicron is. The benefit of continuing the zero-covid strategy is that if it fails you can fall back on the endemic strat… (View Post)

And Japan, we're still technically kind of at war with the Russians. Sneak in there while they're not looking and grab the Kuril Islands back. (View Post)

If I was a Tory MP concerned only about job preservation I'd keep Boris until 2023. The damage he's doing to the Tory brand is mostly already done, and a lot of what's left is about him personally. H… (View Post)

The pact worked out great for them. What didn't go so well was when they ended it and went to war with Russia, that went pretty badly if memory serves. (View Post)

Yup, to the extent that there's a substantive point, as opposed to a series of pseudo-populist evasions, it's that responsibility to a community is intrinsically connected with nationalism, and if yo… (View Post)