Whenever I contemplate writing it's been said.
As Arthur Tange used to state loudly to people "Can't you smell the burning?"
The ABC is off tripping again this morning, simply captive to Ukraine sources, seemingly unaware of other perspectives, denying the importance in any strategic thought of knowing the other side.
Caitlin nails it
The situation is very serious. Since 1700 three people have tried to take Moscow: Karl XII who lost his Swedish empire, Napoleon who lost his, Hitler who lost his... and now NATOAUKUS, in which we are mindlessly participant, while imagining doing over China at the same time.
The US budget year begins with 830 billion for defence, 600 billion for nuclear refurbishment. Not news in Australia.
On Karl [or Charles] this for perspective in these neoCarolingian days:
from Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Charlemagne sought a European empire but more modest aims, basically to assert France over Germany.
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