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In reply to Michael Brazier. Oh, I have no idea how Putin intends to get west. Thankfully, that’s his problem to solve, not mine. My point is, to arm an insurgency is to run a kind of race with him: how much can we supply until he closes off the …

[1] I regard myself politically as a classical liberal, and what I think that implies for the Ukraine–Russia conflict is strong support for Ukraine’s aspiration to be free and independent of Russian domination. So, my sentiments are well-reflecte…

In reply to Michael Brazier. Gaining control of Ludwig von Mises’ birthplace is Putin’s chief objective. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. How, exactly, is Putin going to get troops to the Poland/Ukraine border? From what I’ve seen he’s already sent most of his soldiers into Ukraine on other fronts; they’re not going to get to Lviv until all th…

This is a much better translation of the Darwish poem, but I had trouble deleting the other one and inserting this in its place, so here it is: Earth Presses Against Us Earth is pressing against us, trapping us in the final passage. To pass through, we…

In reply to mlyoung57. Answer: because it’s not the realistically worst case scenario. Once Putin uses tactical nuclear weapons, we’re gambling with all-out annihilation via strategic nuclear warfare. There is no reliable way for an early w…

What if the realistically worst-case scenario is Putin being cornered and using one or more tactical nukes — his fully realizing that no one will risk a large-scale, strategic nuclear war and so also realizing that, once he does this, he will ach…

[…] a post back on February 26, I recommended a pair of lectures and an article by John Mearsheimer, going on to make a series of […] LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Can the party currently being held hostage by Donald Trump really point at the Democrats as the paradigm of irrationality?” – frankly, yes. The center-left’s lack of objectivity on Ukraine is just one…