[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today. In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia whose existence as an independent entity is an affront,5 what kind of ‘accommodation’ […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Ukraine and NATO The best writing on the background to the Ukraine conflict I have seen recently is two essays by Lord Robert Skidelsky in which he tries to unpack Russian actions and counter ‘the Russians are coming’ line now dominant in Western Europe defence circles. In the […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today. In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia whose existence as an independent entity is an affront,5 what kind of ‘accommodation’ […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. NB Lobster is free All issues of Lobster are now available without charge on this site. *new* SIS obit On 24 November The Times published an obituary of the MI6 officer Paul Ritchie.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] and Franco’s Spain than with Nazi Germany. 20 both America and Western Europe are culturally dead, a new star now rises not over Bethlehem but Moscow. Should Putin falter, will Bolton next declare for Communist China? Or will North Korea now be revealed as the seedbed of the next ‘culture-bearing elite’? While Bolton ponders […]
[PDF file]: […] many in government in Ireland, the US, UK and EU. A report in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (2 June 2024) was headlined ‘Hunt for Putin attack sub off the west coast’. It noted France, Norway and the UK had deployed aircraft ‘to an area off Sligo and Donegal’ after reports of […]
