General Offensive - General Uprising

<p>The Strait of Hormuz moment makes this an apt time to look at the Bering Strait and the North West Passage. Looking at the proportion of the Arctic littoral that is the coast of Greenland and Canada’s Arctic...

<p>So, Bibi Netanyahu is on a choke chain: precision strikes against Hamas leadership, apparently OK; attacks against Hizballah apart from the Capital, fine; but nothing that is going to lead to something close to...

<p>I had a fairly random question this afternoon when I came in from an extraordinarily warm morning’s gardening on a holiday Monday. This was my answer. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

<p>I love that the BBC view me as somebody they can invite on to discuss Russia-Ukraine, and then tell me on the call that it’s about a particular case in the broader context of Russian air defence forces and NATO air...

<p>The Trump-Xi summit was about two things: China getting Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and America expressing its relaxation at the idea of the People’s Liberation Army crossing the Strait of Formosa. Something I...

<p>Netanyahu is trying to keep the late October election date by tabling conscription exemption legislation for young Haredi men, and maybe the Haredi parties will go for it. Their aim isn’t to lose Netanyahu the...

<p>The radio presenter said that the US and Israel were ‘plotting’ a resumption of hostilities. It’s not ‘plotting’ if the resumption is being signalled very clearly: it’s planning. The Iranians are definitely...

<p>This isn’t your daddy’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with the sponsorship and the finance and the refined ideology. It’s 2026 and the Iranians are running Scottish separatist botnets, untrained mooks...

<p>How do the Germans survive when they treat all terrorism as crime in law?Also, is ‘stochastic terrorism’ some kind of meaningless jargon? Did I just record a 25 minute video without once referring to World War...

<p>Sometimes I just have to get home from Crossfit, plunk down in front of the microphone, and start talking. In particular I thought it was important to say something before the weekend about the brief illusions of...

<p>Planes of cleavage in the Iranian regime, imminent collapse of the bourgeois running dog settler colonialist Zionist entity; it says you’re about to watch your adversary dissolve into dust like a vampire on Buffy...

<p>There are definitely British monarchs about whom I know a great deal. I once spent a great deal of time with King Charles I’s encrypted correspondence with Queen Henrietta Maria, for instance, and that lamented king...

<p>It’s been a goal of Russia since the 1980s to peel member states off of NATO, to achieve a favourable correlation of forces against the West. Have the Russians hit the jackpot by peeling off the Big Enchilada?</p>...

<p>You’ll see me pause in this video to check a news feed for current US/Iran negotiation updates. As soon as I pressed ‘stop’ on my video camera, a story popped up saying that Aragchi has left Islamabad. If the...

<p>The senior leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards isn’t filled with people who would volunteer to be a pro-American military dictator in Iran, but you know that offers are hitting generals’...