Ukraine and Russia may have been close to a peace deal in April. However, “sources close to Zelenskyy” told a Ukrainian newspaper that Boris Johnson scuttled the talks because there was a chance to "press" Putin.
A 2014 survey found that a sizeable share of Donbas residents favoured some form of separatism. However, this survey found almost no support for separatism in other regions – contrary to Russian claims at the time.
It’s been widely reported that England is in the throes of an ‘excess deaths crisis’. But if you examine age-adjusted excess mortality and use a consistent baseline, the picture looks far less troubling.
Since the Maidan uprising, the U.S. has taken an intense interest in Ukraine, and many of the decisions it has made seem almost designed to provoke Russia. Was this all in aid of sabotaging the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
The historian Steve Davies is pessimistic about Western living standards over the next two decades. He warns that, due to the reduction in Russian gas supplies, "It's going to be very very hard this winter".
Science, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific journals, is going woke. They recently published an article titled ‘How astrophysics helped me embrace my nonbinary gender identity’.
Russia underestimated Ukraine. But perhaps the West did too. Were our leaders assuming Russia would win a quick victory, after which sanctions could be used as leverage? And now those sanctions can't be reversed.
Western foreign policy makes absolutely no sense – whether from a moral or strategic perspective. This is illustrated by a recent video of Liz Truss, who refuses to criticise our "important partner" Saudi Arabia.
Nuclear power can't save Europe. It takes at least five years to build a nuclear plant. What's more, France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear, but this hasn't stopped prices there from skyrocketing.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, occupied it for twenty years, and in the process got about 200,000 people killed. What's less well known is that, after leaving, the U.S. stole $7 billion of Afghanistan’s money.
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