Donald Trump’s Pardon Of Joe Arpaio Sends A Message To His Allies And His Enemies
Donald Trump obviously believes that he will gain some political capital from stepping into the Joe Arpaio legal controversy, thoughContinue Reading
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Donald Trump, Russian Blackmail, #GoldenShowerGate And #PissGate
The outré behaviour of Donald Trump and his associates has proved a considerable challenge for the international press over the lastContinue Reading
Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s Cold War Warrior
So I’ve just discovered that at some stage during the day, between going to work this morning and returning home this evening, the island of Ireland was hurtled backContinue Reading
Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian Von Ungern-Sternberg
The Atlantic has a fascinating article on a little known, early 20th century warlord who once terrified Mongolia and neighbouringContinue Reading
Syria In 2015 And The Murder Of Ruqia Hassan
Joshua Landis, the Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and author of the ever reliable Syrian CommentContinue Reading
Russian Soldiers Serving With Pro-Assad Forces In Syrian Civil War
Most observers of the civil war in Syria are well aware of the military assistance offered by the government of Vladimir Putin toContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Bilingual Nation
The European version of Politico, the American news and current affairs website, has a short article by Timothy SnyderContinue Reading
The Fallen Of World War II
The “Fallen of World War II” is a data-driven feature examining the human cost of the Second World War, measuring the losses incurred to otherContinue Reading
British-Backed Separatists In Ireland’s Ulster Region Renew Offensive
A chilling interview in the Daily Beast with “Big John”, a notorious commander with the British separatist militias in the north-east ofContinue Reading
Partition Is Wrong In Ukraine But Right In Ireland?
Apparently ethno-religious separatists carving off regions of clearly defined national territories through violence and the threat of violence, withContinue Reading
Ominous Portents For The Baltic States?
Last week I had a quick look at the purchase by Latvia of surplus armoured vehicles from Britain as partContinue Reading
Playing With The Big Boys
The things the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation encourages its aspirant member states to do in order to play with the bigContinue Reading
The Age Of Wars
Couple of things caught my eye over the weekend. One is the low key presence of the regular Iraqi ArmedContinue Reading
The Crimea-Of-The-West
Meanwhile in the “Crimea-of-the-West” militants from the British separatist minority in the north-east of Ireland have staged another of theirContinue Reading
The Catalan Way – The View From The Baltics
An opinion piece from Lithuania on the Baltic-inspired background story to the recent “human chain” or Catalan Way formed byContinue Reading
Vasili Blokhin, The Butcher Of Katyn
A fascinating and quite disturbing post by the Cotton Boll Conspiracy on the infamous “Soviet Butcher” Vasili Blokhin. chief executioner ofContinue Reading
Lessons From The First Chechen War
For military analysts like myself the two most interesting conflicts of the last twenty years have been the First Chechen War of 1994-1996Continue Reading
Putin’s Russia – Annexation Through Language
A quick post to highlight the current political troubles in the Ukraine where the Russian Federation’s attempt to reassert controlContinue Reading
Estonia – Defending What Anglo-Ireland Won’t
I’ve drawn attention to the Baltic nations of Eastern Europe before and how they have successfully mounted a defence of their respective languages and culturesContinue Reading
From Königsberg To Kaliningrad – The Mutable Nature Of European Borders
A fascinating article from Der Spiegel on the visit of the veteran 81 year old German and Hollywood actor Armin Mueller-StahlContinue Reading
The Book Smugglers. Ireland, Lithuania, And The Freedom Of Language
One of the most interesting, and thought-provoking, Irish language documentaries of recent years will be screened at a film festivalContinue Reading
