Category Archives: Diplomacy

Trump Negotiations, Ukraine and Nato

War-War or Jaw-Jaw: Trump, Ukraine and Nato

“What is the truth?” is the last thing most of us are expected to ask, or find out. What we are expected to *believe* is the truth is more easily found. And what we are to think and say about those who believe differently, even more readily still. As the old joke goes “The news used to tell us what happened, and we decided what to think about it, now the news tells us what to think, and we decide whether it even happened that way.”

The Economics of Freedom

Some consistency in the west about whether they really care about standards and freedom would go a long way to balancing this, instead of only caring about them at home for virtue signalling, but accepting lower standards and lower freedoms abroad for the sake of cheap goods.