Owen Matthews

The problem with the ‘Kremlin testing the boundaries’ theory is that it doesn’t make much political or military sense

Fears of an energy-led recession twisted the Biden administration into the mental pretzel that still prevails

His plan is to do everything to convince Trump that he is behaving reasonably, while laying down a series of conditions that Zelensky will refuse to accept

But neither was there a trainwreck

Russia’s conquest of north-east Asia and much of the coast of the Pacific north-west is the founding myth of his country’s modern greatness