FOREST COMMENT

  Iran will conduct a defence of attrition against the USA and Israel . This is how the Vietnames defeated the USA. For the sake of the world, let us support them and hope they are successful.

  This is a brilliantly written article that outlines the Chinese approah to development and diplomacy...it is bottled common-sense. Which is why China will avoid unnecessary conflict... '....Thucydides’   History   is ultimately a study in statecraft. It is a study in how leaders make decisions, how states navigate conflict, and how the interplay of power, perception, and judgment shapes outcomes. Far from being a crude realist manifesto, his work is deeply concerned with the role of   phronesis   (practical wisdom) in governance and the consequences of moral and strategic misjudgment........ While Western strategic thought, especially as filtered through recent interpretations of Thucydides, often frames power transitions as inherently conflictual, Chinese statecraft draws from a very different historical and philosophical tradition. China’s leadership today approaches international relations with a perspective shaped by its long history of dynastic cycles, in...

  'We remember our war dead as having given their lives for freedom; the Germans remember theirs as victims of tragedy. Yet the soldiers on both sides fought equally bravely. Russian troops have also fought bravely in the Ukraine war, but we are never, or rarely, asked to admire their bravery, because their cause is deemed evil.......... A few of us, in this country, as well as on the Continent of Europe and in the USA, have been calling for a negotiated peace almost from the day the war started. We have resisted the comparison between Putin and Hitler. We have simply been cancelled. Nothing must be allowed which will weaken the national resolve to stand by Ukraine. Press self-censorship and disinformation in this proxy war have equalled, and even exceeded, that during the ‘real’ war against Hitler. Now Donald Trump has broken up the united front. Russia, he says, was not the cause (or at least the only cause) of this ‘unnecessary’ war. And for that he has been excoriated by all ri...

  The Skripal poisonings don't make sense....

This is a reasonably coherent resume of Epstein and the politics of it.... 

  This is a detailed report about the Zionist lobby in the UK and throught the US/UK world

Warwick Powell uses mathematical models to predict the end of the Ukraine war - and estimates Ukrainian collapse within 6 to 9 months.