I agree with HY about the necessity of avoiding become directly embroiled in Ukraine, but I also agree with practically everyone else about the need to draw a line in the sand over the NATO alliance.… (View Post)

I appreciate that sentiment, but OTOH I'm not at all sure that randoms mouthing off on PB will make any more difference to anything than randoms mouthing off on Twitter. Unless we really are vastly m… (View Post)

Too late. The UK leads the NATO battle group in Estonia IIRC. (View Post)

5,000,000 rubles per soldier at current exchange rates equates to about $8.5bn to buy out the entire 190,000 strong Russian invasion force. If only it were that simple - and, in the grand scheme of t… (View Post)

It's bullshit, and they know it's bullshit - but it's bullshit shat out for domestic consumption. Those utterances are for the benefit of ultranationalists and credulous dimwits at home who swallow e… (View Post)