Its institutions and structures are literally being annihilated by the centre. That is the definition of falling apart that I am using. They can't just be put back together again by fiat. (View Post)

Leaving aside Ukraine's situation for a moment. The level of urgency with which the Russian proxies like Orban and Trump are pushing for a place settlement has to be encouraging in a strategic s… (View Post)

The US in it's current form is falling apart. And we live in miserable times. But nothing like as miserable as the historic norm. (View Post)

What little knowledge I have is that this is not really the case, and is why Five Eyes exists following the intelligence failures in the 1990s where the US became dependent on satellites which turned… (View Post)

They are absolutely part of, and on the side of, global gangsterism. Which is, I think, how we should think about it from a "geopolitical alignment" point of view. It's got nothing to … (View Post)