Net Zero is “in Nigel Farage’s sights”
I have considerable respect for the Guardian‘s John Harris. Though a Remainer himself, he was one of the first left-wing journalists to see that the campaign to leave the European Union had popular...
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You can look at it the other way. Putin took the Crimea. Putin promoted the break-away republics. Without him, they would not have happened. In all the similar cases, the common theme is Putin. He did...
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Current national myth of Russia & the core of Putins ideology is the lie about Russia as liberator. All of us between Russia and Germany are watching Ukraine being liberated and hope that for once...
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Well, I was in Brussels last week and, contra the mood on Twitter, Europe feels more buoyantly European than it has in a long time, and Britain is absolutely a part of it, sending weapons to Ukraine,...
View ArticleAndrey Illarionov explains Putin
Over on Triggernomatry, Andrey Illarionov has very definite views about Vladimir Putin (no, he is not bonkers) and Russia. Illarionov was Putin’s leading economic policy advisor for several years....
View ArticleHow close are we to nuclear war?
Interesting exposition by Perun about the risk of nuclear war
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The consensus on Ukraine has only been held together because the country’s plight speaks to different traditions within the Left and Right. Yet on matters of peace, the hawks and the doves will not...
View ArticleThoughts on Spheres of Influence
Sean Gabb writes: Sending money and weapons into the black hole of corruption that is the Ukraine is not a worthwhile cause. It is not worth defending in itself, and it is in the Russian sphere of...
View ArticleDiscussion point: the car bomb that killed Darya Dugina
On 20th August 2022 a car bomb near Moscow killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of the Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin, who was probably the intended target. I am away from home at the moment...
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View ArticleThis is not satire. They believe that genocide and the collapse of human...
As we near 100K followers, we urge every single one of you to join us in taking vital action against this criminal government and their genocidal plans to issue over 100 new oil and gas licences,...
View ArticleThoughts on immigration
“What’s peculiar is that it is often those who have most faith the in ability of government to fix complex and deep-seated problems, like poverty, poor education or climate change, who seem most...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day –Росію необхідно перемогти edition
Putin’s insecurity might start with anxiety about his personal future, but he has extended this into a vision for Russia that involves a permanent struggle with the West and its liberalism. There is...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – There is still nothing ‘realistic’ about ‘Russia...
The Ukraine conflict has merely demonstrated that Mearsheimer’s realism is as ineffective at understanding the present as it has been at predicting the future or explaining the past. Fitting Putin’s...
View ArticleOne year on…
I posted this on the day of the invasion and I think it aged pretty well. Russia is not attacking Ukraine in response to actions of the USA since then, that’s an Americocentric delusion. This is not...
View ArticleBroken how, exactly?
Sweden has made its choice and must live with the consequences. Two years ago almost to the day, after a vote that attracted unprecedented public interest, Sweden introduced a new national flower. It...
View ArticleUS Grand Strategy: NATO, Alliances, & Ukraine – how alliances underpin...
Another excellent presentation by Perun…
View ArticleChina calls in the loans
“‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya” – Bernard Condon and the Associated Press in a major article for Fortune...
View ArticleWhy chocolate cake does not exist
I like the style of this guy Gaius: "Chocolate cake doesn't exist, because all the ingredients are used in other dishes as well." — Gaius (@GaiusLatine) June 5, 2023 Readers are invited to supply...
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