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Keith’s negotiating prowess

9th May 2025 well_chuffed 1439 Comments

Keith’s expertise is certainly not in negotiating and especially not with the Donald. Despite shouting from the rooftops how wonderful our new trade deal with the US is (remember only possible because of Brexit) the [more…]

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Unhinged

20th February 2025 well_chuffed 2556 Comments

With the news that the USA and Russia are negotiating over Ukraine in Saudi Arabia without the participation of either the Europeans or the Ukrainians can we hope the killing will soon stop. I believe [more…]

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Summary of U.S.-Russia Negotiations Over Ukraine

19th February 2025 Swiss Bob 2521 Comments

My “The US and Russia will negotiate a peace deal. Ukraine will be carved up. The EU will be told to do one.” is a pretty good summary but short of articles I wondered how [more…]

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Elizabeth Bentley, Part Four

12th February 2025 well_chuffed 2698 Comments

Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]

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Decline & Fall

21st November 2024 Going Postal 2805 Comments

The final stage of a great power’s decline is often marked by a shift towards finance-driven capitalism.  In the 1980s and ’90s, finance-driven capitalism was touted as the future of economic prosperity. However, this narrative [more…]

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Whittaker Chambers, Part Three

20th November 2024 well_chuffed 2268 Comments

In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]

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The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 2398 Comments

The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]

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Why did Ukraine invade and occupy a part of the Kursk Oblast?

26th September 2024 Going Postal 2715 Comments

As we all know ‘the first casualty of war is the truth’. That short sentence sums it up neatly. Deception and propaganda are legitimate aspect of warfare. Both sides of a conflict try, in the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Forty-Eight

8th September 2024 Going Postal 2451 Comments

Monday Good morning happy readers and it looks like it’s going to a nice week for the last week of the school holidays down here in the South. So Liebore said they were going to [more…]

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