Why Peace Is Not on the Horizon Even though intensive diplomatic negotiations are underway, I don’t think the world is any closer to peace in Ukraine in any meaningful way. In my view, Russia’s imperial war can only end if Russia runs out of money to wage it. And although its funds have been rapidly…
My foreign friends, blog readers, and social media followers have recently been asking me what has happened to Czechia when they see top representatives of the new government aligning themselves with Russian collaborators like Orbán and Fico. Elections were held in the Czechia, overwhelmingly won by the populist movement ANO. It won by promising everything…
Because I regularly watch both British and Czech television channels—and therefore also the commercials that run on them—I was reminded of a quote from Norman Douglas’s book South Wind. He wrote it back in 1917, and the quote goes: “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” That line inspired me to…
