Choosing between a horrific outcome and a potentially existential one is not difficult. The truth is we made our choice about Ukrainian civilians a long ago when we did not admit them to Nato. Specif… (View Post)

Two comments on the last thread. 1) Twitter is not an editor that creates content, it is a publishing platform. Therefore you will find the (free) insights from some very highly informed people on th… (View Post)

Who’s talking about world war 1? I’m talking about world war 2 - a generous financial aid package to the defeated aggressor in exchange for large scale demilitarisation (and if the Russian people sho… (View Post)

@d_d Before you lose access to the global internet and are stuck with Rus-net, I thought you would enjoy this humorous video. It asks “Are We The Baddies?”. https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY And yes. You … (View Post)

My experience with Gen X Russians when I was there was that most said they were more frightened of nuclear oblivion after the Cold War than during it. Decades of Evil Empire rhetoric from the West ha… (View Post)