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…
RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “rude awakening” for political leaders who thought the global rules-based order could be maintained through treaties and not armed force, according to a defence expert from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “The big thing that…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WOMEN with plywood cut out rifles, preparing to resist 180,000 Russian troops and thousands of tanks, missiles and artillery amassed on the borders of Ukraine. The photo says it all. All the while the West assists the beleaguered…
