Patrick Porter
Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Snr Assoc Fellow @RUSI_org. Adjct Scholar @CatoFP. Snr Research Fellow @RANDEurope. Realist. Strategy, history, IR. π¦πΊπ¬π§
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An emerging debate on the response of the "Global South" to Russia/Ukraine. Instinctive assumption by many that countries outside western orbit are hedging because of anti-western...
Struck that Ukraine "maximalists" quote Churchill often, that "the price of greatness is responsibility." This assumes that foreign policy should be primarily about "greatness", th...
Ukraine's David is giving Russia's Goliath a real hard kicking and making swift, dramatic advances. Amongst other things, this has sparked an uptick (on this medium) of big claims...
Maybe so. But fascism was a first-order threat to western interests not only because it was irrationally violent, but because it captured a powerful host, 1930's Germany, in pre-nu...