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The World is Utterly Changed. The new imperatives are: Energy and Food Security, Defence and Cybersecurity. Climate Change will become a point of Western Friction. New Geopolitical Lines are being drawn.

 
“How does one get a Starfighter? Buy a field in Germany and wait….”

This morning – The World is Utterly Changed. The new imperatives are: Energy and Food Security, Defence and Cybersecurity. Climate Change will become a point of Western Friction. New Geopolitical Lines are being drawn.

The sun is shining on a cloudless spring morning, the air is still, the birds are on the wing and building nests, the river looks beautiful, and the world has never felt such a dangerous place. The Royal Navy’s Portsmouth base is just a few miles round the coast… and we’re in the LD100 zone if it happens.

Among the degree subjects I studied were Russian History and Soviet Economic History. It was still the USSR back then. On my bookshelves are Professor John Erickson’s fantastic histories; “The Road to Stalingrad” and “The Road to Berlin”, alongside Vasily Grossman’s memoire of the Red Army. Perestroika (signed copy) is up there somewhere. Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s Stalin is on the shelf. I’ve enjoyed them all, but they don’t give me any clues on what happens next. Except that Russians are capable of immense suffering and are very comfortable with “strong” leaders long on cruelty.

 
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