U.S. intelligence estimated that the Russian “peace offensive” to prevent the deployment of NATO missiles to match the Russian SS-20 cost Moscow $600 million through 1983 alone (at least $1.8 billion now based on 1980 dollars). All of it laundered through Western allied parties.

In fairness, there is a case to be made for the overall failures of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung, and the resulting fetishising of passivity misunderstood as “overcoming the past” but only up to a point. After all, there are many Germans who would do the right thing.

Why do the best of us leave us so early? David Knowles, only 32, was a magnificent journalist and human being with a heart bigger than most. He had a singular passion for Ukraine and a similar passion for exposing and fighting Russian aggression and war crimes. He faced this

PSA for all escalation managers: your escalation management is the best tool to bring about precisely the outcome you say you want to avoid. Keep this up and you will get to see that “WW3” you speak of with fear. That makes you truly the most dangerous people in the West.

Correction: the FSB cannot by definition have a problem working with the neo-Nazi DShRG Rusich because the FSB and the Russian state overall created Rusich.

That’s the right question to ask but lately, they point to MAGA, AfD and the like in each country, and say they are fighting together for “true freedom” in the West. This is a reminder we need to reclaim our societies from the toxin of Putinism, imported and homegrown alike.

This fella reminds us that the FSB malign worker Ionov, dedicated to injecting turmoil, violence and dissent in the West, has a $10 million award for his capture.