The problem, of course, comes if the ERG cries foul and Sunak calls their bluff. If you get two-thirds or more of the Parliamentary Tory Party backing the Prime Minister, and him getting the terms th… (View Post)

NATO membership for Ukraine is dead in the water, if I'm correct and this ends with a Kashmiri solution - a ceasefire, where Russia holds onto its gains but both sides continue to make further claims… (View Post)

1. Russia has been a despotism for almost its entire history, save for an interlude of about a decade at the end of the Cold War. The experiment was unstable and quickly extinguished by the emergence… (View Post)

Pretty much. Apart from anything else, Russia has an almost limitless supply of cannon fodder. It all ends with partition along a line of control as per Kashmir, with neither side recognising the ter… (View Post)

Yeah, generally speaking the poorest don't literally starve or freeze to death. They just go a bit cold and a bit hungry, so that's fine... The general point stands. The effects of inflation grow mor… (View Post)