India is still a largely agrarian society, and is heavily dependent on imports of fertiliser from plants in Russia, with which it has long standing economic ties stretching back into the Soviet era. … (View Post)

Agree with all of this. Firstly, this tragedy serves to remind us once again both how wretched the current Government is and how much worse off we would've been with the lunatics of the far left in c… (View Post)

1. Torture, maim and murder the leadership 2. Break up any remaining protests with machine gun fire The Mahatma was up against the late era British Raj which, for all its obscenities (including the A… (View Post)

And even the fraction of the Russian population that still believes what state television tells them will soon learn otherwise, if and when their husbands and sons are press ganged by Putin and shot … (View Post)

Early days, but... China so far not helping Russia evade Western sanctions-U.S. official https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1497792402987356160 China is Russia's largest trading partner for both impo… (View Post)