Starving Little Children Create Global Outrage

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

When I began to think about what I would write about in this week’s column, my first thought was that I hoped everyone saw the gruesome photographs of the tiny five-month-old girl in Gaza who had starved to death. She had weighed six pounds, six ounces at birth. Five...

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine.  His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s...

Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel over economically—then somehow rise from...

The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

US President Donald Trump is now largely following his predecessors hostile policy towards Russia. If the war in Ukraine continues on its current path Russia will end it with an outright victory. The US and its European vassals are trying to impose a ceasefire to...

A Further US Attack on Iran Would be Pointless Kabuki

by | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized

A US President, beset by the Epstein story that refuses to lie down and die, and under pressure from domestic hawks because of a visibly collapsing Ukraine, has been letting off a blunderbuss of geo-political threats across the board: Firstly, and principally, at...