Syria and the reluctant dictator
It was not long ago that Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, was a favourite in the West, and perhaps even more so his wife, Asma, who was interviewed in →
Conflicts, disasters
An alternate Cold War
What if the Cold War (1947-1991) had instead been fought between the United States and Germany – and not the Soviet Union? It may be hard to believe, →
The potential guilt of Churchill
There has long been talk in academic circles about the possible culpability of the British in the Second World War, that the war became more brutal when British →
The Ukraine war and its consequences
The attempts to control and incite Ukraine against its huge neighbour, with the aim of dividing Russia into less manageable chunks, are wrong and dangerous in my view. →
Turkey develops its own fighter jet
Speaking of the big changes happening in the world, the Turks are developing their own 5th generation fighter jet. The reason they are building their own is that →
The nuclear doctrine
Most people agree that a full-scale nuclear war is unwinnable. It is probably impossible to shoot down every nuclear-armed missile aimed at your country. And the more nuclear →
Orcs bomb hospitals and kill children
A children’s hospital in Kiev was hit by a missile a few days ago, and the collective Western media sphere decided in about 30 minutes that it was →
Peace talks in the east?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a whirlwind visit to Ukraine on the day he took over the EU presidency. He brought a peace plan with him, and →
If Ukraine joins the EU, we are all at war with Russia
The latest news from the Ukrainian war is Kiev’s missile attack on Crimea, where over 100 bathers on a beach were injured by cluster bombs, of which about →
