Re Meloni I am thinking back to the hysteria around her coming to power. When Trump was elected last time one of my colleagues (admittedly someone who is rather Eeyorish about a lot of things) was co… (View Post)

Kind of, but you could think of it as an excited state, that gains relaxation when you move away. (View Post)

In terms of men yes, the Eastern Front was collosal but the western allies were very much fighting steel not flesh. Look at how many panzer divisions were sucked into Normandy and were destroyed. Loo… (View Post)

At heart Hitler was a continentalist. He thought in terms of land warfare in Europe and had no understanding of Britain's sea power, trade links and the power of the empire. He had no plans for … (View Post)

There was a scientist in the field on recently who said exactly this. We have confused vastly increased knowledge of a problem (yes, we do still have a pollution problem with our water) to be conflat… (View Post)