What Putin has done to Ukraine is cynical and cruel and entirely in line with Russian interests. What Trump is doing to Ukraine is cynical and cruel and entirely in line with American interests. What the EU wants to do to Ukraine is cynical and cruel and entirely in line with European interests.

"Won't this just give Putin a huge window to delay talks until he has well and truly won the war?" I think we should assume that Trump and Putin already made a deal on Ukraine: Russia gets the east, the US gets the rest. This explains why Europe has no seat at the table. This explains why Russian

It's exactly what you think. Why would anyone do this?

NATO’s a relic, the UN's creaking, the EU’s wobbling—and your country might be next. History doesn't care about feelings. Feudal lords also babbled about honor as cannons leveled their castles. The Catholic Church after the Reformation? Reduced to a shadow. Ancien Régime? Headless. Post-WWI empire

What I think about German politics? Well, I can't complain.

Rate my new home screen. I made space for @grok What's missing?

You can't live proud enough to die when you're gone, so you'll have to do it while you're here.

Hunters in the snow, 460 years later.