by PAUL COLLITS – TUCKER Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin took the media world by storm. It ruffled feathers. Even Hillary Clinton chimed in, and, in doing so, gave it yet more oxygen, with some strategically timed remarks. Others called Carlson…
by PAUL COLLITS – SOCRATES was once said to have opined that the unexamined life is not worth living. Well, if that’s the case, there are now billions of lives not worth the genes they are printed on. Think of the world’s…
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 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…
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…
