Obama, Cameron and their juniors have been quick to condemn the Russians for allegedly making no distinction between IS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and other militant Islamists in Syria, and those ‘opposition’ forces backed half heartedly by the West. All of them are anti Assad, but the Islamists are anti almost everybody and especially the […]
This Blog has many times complained of the incompetence of western foreign policy in almost every sphere, but especially in the Middle East and in relations with Russia. It is the inability to think strategically, the refusal to depart from the old tribal model of goodies and baddies post cold war, and the pointless campaign to […]
Corbyn has come under attack from friend and foe for saying in two interviews widely repeated across the media that he would not, if Prime Minister, press the button to launch a nuclear strike from Trident submarines. Dealing with the question of his becoming PM first. This is where everybody is awry. Corbyn’s influence is not […]