Ukraine

Foreign policy: a lack of resolution

February 28, 2025 2:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

At least Biden had the excuse of Alzheimer’s disease – actual or incipient – to explain his lack of coherence.... View Article

Politics: fever dream

February 27, 2025 3:14 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It is interesting to note how Starmer used PMQs yesterday to further highlight his unqualified support for Ukraine, as he... View Article

Ukraine: out of the frying pan

February 23, 2025 2:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

With Pope Francis in a “critical” condition and the Roman Catholic Church having to face up to choosing a successor,... View Article

Ukraine: the road to Hell

February 22, 2025 2:45 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In April 2022, not long after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, I wrote two pieces, one on 7 April entitled,... View Article

Ukraine: a predictable tragedy

February 20, 2025 1:45 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

GUEST POST: Y’know, the last thing the internet needs today is another bullshit opinion about Ukraine and Donald Trump, but... View Article

Ukraine: sham talks?

February 19, 2025 12:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Well, if Starmer hoped that the development on Ukraine would drive other news off the front pages and into obscurity,... View Article

Ukraine: the smog of peace

February 18, 2025 2:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the conduct of military affairs, we are often acquainted with the concept of “the fog of war”, something which... View Article

Defence: empty rhetoric

February 17, 2025 2:25 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is a deep irony in Keir Starmer exhibiting such enthusiasm to secure the borders of Ukraine as part of... View Article

Ukraine: stopping the killing

February 16, 2025 2:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It is not unreasonable to wonder whether the cretin David Lammy, standing is as the UK’s excuse for a foreign... View Article

Ukraine: symbolic shambles

February 14, 2025 3:26 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Everyone, it seems, suddenly has an opinion on the Ukraine war, and the sort of peace deal that Trump should... View Article

Ukraine: unrecorded ferocity

January 14, 2025 3:30 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It says something of the current situation in the UK that Ukraine has almost completely disappeared from the news agenda,... View Article

Ukraine: a lost cause?

November 26, 2024 2:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The military situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, with the AFU losing ground on all fronts, including Kursk where Russian... View Article

Ukraine: path to destruction

November 24, 2024 3:16 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Two-thirds of the country, apparently, back assisted dying, which is perhaps just as well because president Putin seems set on... View Article

Russia: confrontation

November 23, 2024 2:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It is difficult to believe that we’re in the situation where Putin’s forces have lobbed an intermediate range ballistic missile... View Article

Ukraine: on the brink

November 22, 2024 3:13 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Well, I bet no-one saw that coming. Only hours after Starmer had personally authorised a Storm Shadow attack on Russian... View Article

Ukraine: retaliation

November 21, 2024 3:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Three days before the news that Ukraine had launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles at targets inside Russia, the Biden administration... View Article