History is littered with examples of civilian bombings or other attacks not working as the attacker might hope.
Unnecessary.
Many of us, I think, have arrived at the conclusion that something here is fundamentally wrong. Something is broken.
“Everything is fine here”: Gript’s Ben Scallan phoned various hotels in safer parts of Ukraine to check safety and room availability. This is what they said:
All of this amounts to an enormous Russian humiliation. That, and that alone, is why he is now again bluffing about his willingness to use nuclear weapons.
On September 21st 1601 the Spanish landed in Kinsale Co Cork with some 4,000 men, took the town and awaited the arrival of the Gaelic chiefs from Ulster. With a fleet of twenty-eight, they occupied the port at Kinsale under the maestro de campo general, Don Juan del Águila. The ships were to be brought […]
Worse than death?
“We’re not encouraging them to be independent.”
Critical infrastructure.
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.
An insecure supply of energy, driven by an ideological crusade to purge the country of unclean things.
Landmines are an especially evil weapon.