I keep thinking back to the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000. That public narrative up to then had been that if we weren't allies of Russia there was at least a degree of friendship betwee… (View Post)

It is one of the rare cases where "people warned about this" is not in anyway an exaggeration. Normally when people say there were warnings they mean a few and often relatively obscure peop… (View Post)

I did notice an article that the Americans are apparently reassessing the Russian military given their performance in Ukraine. I should imagine it will be quite short and sweet. e.g. Russia = crap. (View Post)

Errr, did they forget about his funeral? (View Post)

He's spot on there. Things are rarely very simple, but they are also rarely very complicated. Quite often any reasonably intelligent person with a bit of curiosity can figure things out. I suspe… (View Post)