If America’s role is to continue funding Ukrainian soldiers without genuinely wanting to negotiate peace, then all talks of peace are folly.
Valieva, Mitchell and today’s other sporting greats best fix up their spare bedrooms as plenty of redundant athletes are coming their way.
Whilst Europe and the U.S. never have been more closely aligned, the ‘West’ paradoxically has also never been more alone.
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) plans for expansion plays out on Russia’s borders, the question of sovereignty and defense could be recalled through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
The demons will still be there at the end of the journey, waiting for her arrival and for the pleasure of her company.
We need to replace all NATO’s pliable puppets with an intellectual caste that resorts to jaw jaw instead of NATO’s endless war war and that sees Russia as something more than a market to offload McDonald’s hamburgers.
Is there a civil war that has been going on in Ukraine not just these past weeks, but these past eight years?
Biden, finally, has his foreign policy ‘success’: Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market.