This is a very astute post. The thing about totalitarian regimes is that nothing shows, but when a crack appears in the regime it can travel very fast. Right now, millions of Russians (probably many … (View Post)

Sadly, my understanding is that there's now a trainline through Southern occupied Ukraine, so the Kerch bridge is less essential to keeping Crimea supplied than it was. (View Post)

Okay, there are a couple of technical inaccuracies in what was generally an interesting video. For a start, there are various different types of 'artifical lift' that are used to bring oil to the sur… (View Post)

Indeed: or, in their own way, Switzerland or Denmark or Norway. Or even Israel. (View Post)

This is, I would assume, what happened with the Algerian boxer. And no she should not have been allowed to complete. But she deserved sympathy, not insults. (View Post)