The hyperbolic language westerners use to describe fairly normal modern warfare in Ukraine suggests they’ve invested exactly zero thought in what their own governments have been doing in the middle east for the last two decades. It’s like, yes, killing, violence and destruction is what war looks like. You’re describing the thing that war is….
Neither NATO nor Russia is telling us what really happened with the Moskva, the legendary admiral ship of the Black Sea fleet. NATO because in theory, they know. Moscow, for its part, made it clear they are not saying anything until they can be sure what happened. One thing is certain. If the Russian Ministry…
“Energy makes energy anyhowSo spend yourself and get rich right now”— Marillion “Rich” This day has been a long time coming. From the moment, more than a decade ago, when it was finally admitted that Europe was destined to be an energy importer, we were going to see the climax of the showdown between the…
It’s a matter of military fact that the Ukrainian proxy war, which saw more third-party military-technical assistance dispatched in a larger amount and in a shorter time to one of the direct participants than in any previous conflict in history (remembering that the Lend-Lease Act didn’t scale up till after some time), has already depleted…
The US doesn’t sincerely care about human rights issues in India since all that it hopes to do is leverage them as part of its information warfare campaign against that country driven with the intent of putting pressure upon it as punishment for New Delhi’s principled neutrality towards Moscow. The US and India are trading…
Zelensky and his handlers want the whole of Europe to drive over the abyss. But the talented Mr Zelensky is pushing the script beyond acceptable limits when he starts slapping Berlin around. Team Zelensky has been playing a deft, if cloyingly confected, game up to now. The Ukrainian president has found time in his busy…
