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)

What is it like to consider every political issue first and foremost through the prism of its electoral impact? It’s an honest question. Traditionally we are told most people go into politics through… (View Post)

Wouldn’t that he something. There has been a relatively illustrious list of politicians hiding behind handles on here hasn’t there. (View Post)