by MÁTYÁS TEMESFŐI – THE Ukraine-Russia situation paints a grotesque picture from a European viewpoint. Like many, we are watching it unfold on TV. The loud bangs from billions of dollars worth of equipment seem somewhat distant. But there is another fight…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE was a film made in the Sixties called Suppose They Gave a War and No None Came, directed by Hy Averback. Well, with apologies to Hy, sixty years on and there now seems a realistic chance that…
by BETTINA ARNDT – OUR world is obsessed with saving lives. We survived COVID lockdowns imposed by governments claiming to keep us safe. Teams of burly footballers drop to their knees because Black Lives Matter. The presumption of innocence wilts under the…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THERE is a name to conjure with in 2022, that name is surely Volodymyr Zelensky. How different he proved to be from our expectations about politicians who find themselves in similar situations. By failing to invoke the…
RUSSIA has reiterated its threat to target arms shipments to Ukraine, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying any cargo believed to be carrying weapons is “fair game”. He has also vowed to block the transfer of Soviet-era S-300 air defence systems to…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WHILE the onslaught on Ukraine raged this week, President Joe Biden unleashed a salvo of devastating rhetoric, warning Putin that the US would steadfastly defend “every inch of NATO territory”. To soften the blow on the sensitive Russian…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH the launch of a war of aggression in the Ukraine by Russian dictator Putin, it is time now to make a serious reassessment of the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain. Who would have thought that this much-maligned…
by JURIS LAUCIS – IN THE days of America’s wild west, the robbery victim was paralysed into passivity by the simple phrase “stick ’em up”. Today, the same result is achieved by an equally simple phrase “I’ve put our nuclear forces on…
by DAVID FLINT – EMPIRES can normally expect to survive for about ten generations, around 250 years, argued Glubb Pasha persuasively in The Fate of Empires. The imperial republic, as great French philosopher Raymond Aron described the United States, is the West’s great…
UKRANIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a phone call he deeply appreciates Australia’s military and humanitarian assistance after his country was invaded by Russian forces. Mr Zelenskiy tweeted on Saturday night that he had updated Mr Morrison…
