As predicted, Crimea will now be de facto annexed, whilst the world should expect Putin's next step will be to orchestrate a similar referendum for eastern Ukraine to join Russia.
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13. Can a war be fought too long to have a negotiated settlement?.'
Wars are like forest fires, which only burn themselves out when they run out of fuel.…
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Today I continue my review of Nails Ferguson's misconceptions.
9. 'Britain’s involvement in the war caused mobility to give way to…
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I am firmly of the belief that history is to be studied in order to understand the essence of man’s collective social decisions so that we can learn vital lessons…
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So Putin has rather predictably called Obama's bluff, having made the correct assessment that Obama is a man of straw, and deployed his armed forces into the Crimea…
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Putin’s vision of rebuilding the USSR is one he holds very strongly and one that he has worked hard to craft since his arrival in power. His campaign has accelerated…
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On August 29th 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and its resultant storm surge breached the neglected flood defences in 50 places. Two days later 80% of the city…
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The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at last week’s Davos conference warned of the similarity between the current situation of the Chinese rise of military power to…
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Put simply, the sun's radiation speads out through the solar system and then interacts with the earth's atmosphere to warm our planet's surface and oceans. While the…
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