That would be very difficult without Europe becoming a superstate. Which may be where we get to in all this, but I hope not. (View Post)

You're not wrong, you're just off in a rabbit hole. Zelenskyy was not diplomatic, as the govt stated last night. He made mistakes in the meeting, from a purely strategic point of view. He s… (View Post)

Is Trump a Russian agent? Or a useful idiot? I honestly don't think it matters any more - his actions are what count and it is abundantly clear that he is a mortal threat to our way of life. We … (View Post)

Not public, private, and not in an escalatory way. This is the basics of diplomacy - if you have a 4 year old at home, or work with teenagers, you'd get this instinctively. That we have to do th… (View Post)

Completely disagree. It is leverage, which we badly need right now. Mandelson's odiousness will serve him brilliantly in hinting, subtly enough that Trump is constantly discombobulated, that thi… (View Post)