New Catallaxy

These things do escalate. Where does this end up? Biden says U.S. would ‘respond’ to Russia if Putin uses chemical or biological weapons.  US President Joe Biden says NATO would respond if Russia was to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, adding the “nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use”. Pretty open-ended.…

Since we are onto another mass-catastrophe issue in The Ukraine, we don’t want to leave Covid behind without remembering what an incoherent public policy disaster it has been. And here to assist is an excellent column by Adam Creighton in The Oz: Covid fears left behind in the wake of Ukraine. I will merely excerpt…

Saw a reference to Zelensky being akin to Batman in the minds of western media pundits. If he were Batman, fighting who? Could be Joker, or Riddler or Penguin etc., but given Putin’s well-publicised way of dealing with opponents, I’d plump for Poison Ivy. Farfetched? You ain’t seen nothing yet. From comic-book allusions to the…

On Saturday, the Marshall Government went the way of the dodo with a significant swing to Labor on the 2pp. Interestingly, both Liberal and Labor commenters, Nicolle Flint (Lib-SA) and Amanda Rishworth (Lab-SA), on the Sky News post election analysis agreed with each other that it was the loss of the V8 Supercars to Adelaide…

They’ll deconstruct everything as civilization burns Your children will starve while being terrified to accurately identify the gender of their classmates https://t.co/kkh5fimRtY — Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) March 23, 2022 If I told you in 2012 (I did) that the definitional games that liberals played with ‘marriage’ then would also be applied in areas that were…

This is a comment on a post at Powerline. It highlights how little we know about anything that surround so many of the major issues of the world today. There is evidence that the US was involved in the 2014 Maidan coup replacing the Ukrainian leader friendly to Russia with one friendly to the US.…