You know it’s all going to pot when you have to rely on Lukaschenko. (View Post)

Sadly I’m not sure we’ll ever see him at The Hague. The only way Putin leaves office IMHO are: 1. Pensioned off to his dacha and ‘looked after’ by his ‘protection officers’ (purely for his own protec… (View Post)

I agree and possibility is he turns this into a round of further repression and essentially completes the transformation of Russia back into totalitarian dictatorship. There are a couple of factors i… (View Post)

So this is the next step - getting his lapdog involved. High stakes. The Belarusian government is hardly a rock of stability right now. And any protests could spread to Russia. (View Post)

There has been a dialling back again in terms of the comments coming out of Moscow and Washington. It certainly doesn’t look like any such action is imminent. We are probably not quite at the moment … (View Post)