Look at it this way - if Putin wants to escalate the situation by attacks on western infrastructure he could probably do it in a much simpler way. It is also probably worth reiterating at this junctu… (View Post)

Lots of hyperbole on here this morning. The key player to watch here is the US. They are noticeably showing restraint. For all of Europe’s positioning, the US calls the shots here and it will be the … (View Post)

Re the long table thing, I had thought about immuno-suppression being an issue but that doesn’t explain away the fact that he was pictured in close proximity to Lukaschenko shortly after he gave Macr… (View Post)

I think there’s a difference between the public and private face of the Chinese government at the moment. Publicly they are trying to sit in the gap between the West and Russia because it doesn’t ben… (View Post)

Indeed. Stanislav Petrov comes to mind. In a scenario where a computer error showed a US first strike, he wrote it off and did not pass it up the chain of command. Now clearly that situation was acci… (View Post)