After feeling some optimism yesterday, I’ve got a gut punch feeling that Vlad is playing rope a dope. Sending in conscripts as cannon fodder to degrade Ukraine’s professional army, and older tanks as… (View Post)

I am told he lacks the personal support of Tory MPs. (View Post)

So what’s the end game a year from now? Expensive & bloody to control & pacify. Not welcomed as liberators. But he can’t be seen to lose and retreat, at least not yet. Seems to me he’ll keep … (View Post)

Some prodding and poking in the same way migs flirt with uk airspace. This would be something quite different. (View Post)

I couldn’t believe they are only getting around tk sanctioning Bank Rossiya now. It’s been known as the FSB Bank and Putin’s Piggybank for at least 15 years! One wonders if the national security wing… (View Post)