The Reading Junkie

Zelensky’s “10-point peace plan” is hot air.Just listing off conditions that you want is pointless without first consulting the other involved party, especially if your conditions are all totally delusional. The framing of his peace plan is equally questionable, as he wants it discussed at a global summit, which illustrates incapability. If Ukraine cannot be talked to without the USA in the room, then why talk to Ukraine at all? Why should Russians, or anyone else, take Ukrainians seriously if they don’t take themselves seriously? But the biggest problem is that Russia has no reason to negotiate with Ukraine.

Today I’ll be live at 8:00pm Moscow time on Billy Bob’s show to talk about Putin’s four hour “marathon” with the press (4 minutes is a struggle for Biden). Tune in and see me!

A paywalled 5 November article in the German edition of Business Insider (I saw no equivalent in the English site) cited an 30 October NATO report, which was released at least in part to select journalists: ‘The Joint Intelligence and Security Division of NATO therefore writes in a secret report, which is available to Business … Read more

Some of you already know that I am writing a book loosely inspired by the 1970 Sophia Loren WWII movie Sunflower, now I will provide some details on the story and the point of it. Sunflower is a tale of an Italian soldier who is rescued from certain death by a Russian village girl, falls … Read more