Honestly, if we get serious about building up our defense industry, that will at least give them the satisfaction we're finally taking them seriously.

That's a better basis for negotiations than what we've been doing the last four years.

I saw it coming earlier, but this was the point of no return for me.

LIHOP-Theorien sind ein rabbit hole, mit dem man besser gar nicht erst anfängt.

Zwischen dem Höhepunkt der Eskalationsangst im Herbst '22, den Verschwörungstheorien, und den tatsächlichen Konsequenzen hat sich die 🇺🇦 damit wirklich keinen Gefallen getan.

That was an exasperating read. Doubly so because I fully realize, any unsolicidated 'advice' I feel compelled to offer runs the risk of making me part of the problem, not the solution.

So I'll just say I recognize what a dilemma this is, and that anyone who's been there has my full sympathy.

He's two lions short.

Shoot, a gal could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Because apparently no one considered the direct participation of North Korean troops escalatory either.

I hope you're familiar with Paul d'Anieri's work. It's regrettable he's not as present in the public sphere as others.

The longer we delay this debate—particularly in Berlin—the more apparent it becomes that either Germany does not view Ukraine as crucial to Europe’s security architecture as its rhetoric suggests,...

I only saw the first season. Laurie was good as always, and I found it passably amusing. Not as good as The Thick of It, though.

I guess since the Russian invasion, I don't have as much an attention span left for fiction.

Avenue 5?

I'm not really in the loop anymore, though.

The biggest problem is there was no appropriately urgent push for defense industrial mobilization in the West. Once you are growing your stockpiles, you can still manage red lines by deciding what and when and how much to send to Ukraine. But to shift Russia's calculus, you need to outproduce them.

Le livre de Paul d'Anieri est pour moi LE livre à lire pour comprendre les origines du conflit Russo-Ukrainien.

Près de 30 d'une relation complexe, déchirée entre le désir d'indépendance de l'un et la volonté de garder son statut de puissance mondiale pour l'autre.