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Someone said on R4 today that it's likely that he'll be off to Africa, where Wagner are very active. Can't see him staying long in Belarus.

Well, it led the 6am news bulletin of the Today programme. Maybe the BBC isn't as monolithic as you claim. Journalists/broadcasters have different requirements for verification, I think that's a good thing. I'm less concerned about who breaks news first, although have to accept that it's a key...

It's not the easiest thing to ascertain but, broadly, yes, that seems to be the movement of travel. Don't forget that European countries -- with Britain at the forefront -- engaged in imperial expansion, and those legacies remain very much with us (decolonisation was one of the processes behind...

I think the key thing is it's easy to pummel cities with missiles from a distance. To take, occupy and defend a city requires your own troops to be in that city (and you can't pummel it with missiles), and they need to fight combat with those defying the occupation: they need to kill and be...

Great post, although what 'we' have done means that I can't identify with that 'we'.

Yup, what he says. What's happened subsequently is the number of countries has grown and, as a consequence, their size has shrunk (eg Yugoslavia in 1990s; Czech/Slovakia) It was for a while. No longer. Although the terminology has changed. It's 'civilizationalism' that Putin ultimately...

"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose." Henry Kissinger

Source?

I don't think there will be a bitter end, and I also don't think the Ukranians will capitulate that easily. The key question is what is Putin trying to achieve, and whether he maintains control of the situation. It's more likely that his aim/s is/are more limited than most imagine, because if...

This is where blind nationalism leads to. Putin might be leading the current charge and about to reveal its full horrors, but there are plenty of other scoundrels who have resorted to the last refuge, including our current incumbent.

Spare us this tosh with your lame claim to be some neutral, independent, balanced observer of international relations. Paleo-nonsense this is not. Which is worse?

If it happens, it's coming in the next week or so.

Putin + Farage vs Macron, Merkel + Biden