London UK. 24th July 2019. Boris Johnson, delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promise to take Britain out of the European Union by 31st October. (Shutterstock) By Brian Wheeler, BBC News Boris Johnson has defied the normal rules of politics for so long, it is hard to believe he is […]
Brussels, Belgium – April 7, 2022: Horizontal Picture of Huge Vertical NATO Flag Waving in the Wind in the Cinquantenaire Parc. (Shutterstock) By Amoz JY Hor, The Washington Post The invasion of Ukraine has been horrifying to witness. Early on, some observers repeatedly expressed the idea that the invasion of Ukraine is especially horrifying because, […]
By Ben Judah, Slate The belief that Vladimir Putin was bluffing, that he would never give the order for the nearly 200,000-man army he had spent months amassing on the borders of Ukraine to invade, persisted as late as 5:45am Moscow time the day of the attack, when, grimacing in a red tie, Russia’s ruler […]