I have a particular perspective on the workings of the Chinese communist party too. And so far they’ve performed roughly as I would have expected. Studious neutrality. Not antagonising either Russia … (View Post)

It’s Ukrainian rope a dope in action again. It’s terrible for the poor bastards on the receiving end of those missiles. But militarily, oh my what a waste of what’s now a very precious resource for R… (View Post)

Musk gets lots of things wrong. In his calmer moments of public introspection he freely admits this. My earlier comment on him “being down the rabbit hole” was after I’d seen this tweet that he’d bee… (View Post)

You’re still barking up the wrong tree. If there’s a WMD escalation it will be with nerve agent, not nukes. Putin crossed that “redline” before in Syria and there was no consequence from the West at … (View Post)

You are missing the real insight from the Iraq analogy though. No one said “let’s just give Saddam part of Kuwait to keep him in power”. His entire army was obliterated / chased back to the borders a… (View Post)