Archive - Not all doom

Time to learn about Iran's separatist movements

There are three fairly significant ongoing armed insurgencies

1 hr ago •

The Other Thing Happening This Week

The G7 was the final test for Trump's willingness to sanction Russia. He failed the test

Jun 18 •

How the anti-war Trump made Israel's Iran strikes inevitable

Ever since Trump killing off the JCPOA, the way for Israel to limit Iran's nuclear programme was by destroying it

Jun 13 •

Operation Spider's Web: opening Pandora's Box

Only Ukraine could have come up with something so brilliant. But other countries might try it

Jun 10 •

Krasnov Revisited

A fascinating recent podcast episode throws a little more light on this story

Jun 4 •

The Iran nuclear deal returns?

The US and Iran are quietly discussing a new nuclear deal

Jun 3 •

Putin's TACO war

Traders figured Trump out. Putin did that some time ago

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Starvation in Gaza

Is the world finally responding?

May 24 •

The Washington museum murders were pure antisemitism

Misreporting of 'diplomats' being targeted was both irrelevant and inaccurate

May 23 •

The Trump presidency and the remaking of the Middle East

May 18 •

Trump and American irrelevance

The thing Trump wants the least - being irrelevant - is increasingly what is happening

May 12 •

So the last shall be first, and the first last

Brexit and the loss of leverage

May 10 •

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