This link takes you to a New York Times feed on the situation in eastern Europe. It is interminable and not many of you will want to watch all of it, but please watch...

I grieve for Ukraine, I can’t see any way that that country can come out of the current crisis even, let alone ahead. Some of you may recall that in my very first post on...

David, I’ve certainly never seen anyone contemplating an invasion of Russia/Ukraine up the east coast of the Black Sea – that would indeed be monumentally stupid. But it would be a relatively simple operation...