Patrick Cockburn

Columnist at The Independent

Writer at Freelance

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Trump's Liz Truss moment will hurt America forever

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Oh, the grand old Duke of Trump,He had 10,000 tariffs,He marched them up to the top of the hill,And he marched them down again. Trump says that he has merely “paused” his “beautiful” reciprocal tariffs, and in 90 days’ time, if he does not get what he wants, he will throw them back into battle once again to fight those who have supposedly been looting, pillaging, raping and plundering the US for decades.
Every Bottle down the Drain

2 weeks ago | lrb.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

In the late morning of 30 April 1980, I left my flat at 90 Westbourne Terrace, near Paddington Station, to walk across Kensington Gardens to the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate. I wanted a visa to visit Iran, where the US raid to rescue staff held hostage in its embassy in Tehran had failed disastrously a few days earlier.
The long, indecisive war in Ukraine is reshaping the political world map

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

November 3, 2022 The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously remarked to a friend in August 1914. He was, of course, dead right about the longevity of the First World War, which did not end decisively in 1918 but went on sparking crises and wars up to 1939.
Russia knows better than to actually invade Ukraine

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

Russia has much to gain from threatening to invade Ukraine, but Putin has never overplayed his hand before and is unlikely to do so now. The essence of the crisis in Ukraine is that Russia can gain many benefits from its unspoken threat to invade, but none at all from actually doing so. Russia will keep piling on the pressure, a veteran analyst of Ukrainian affairs, who wishes to remain anonymous, told me. But I can see no upside for Putin in carrying out an invasion.
Demonizing Russia risks prolonging the war

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

_The problem is that the hatreds generated by war gain momentum during the conflict and do not have a reverse emotional gear. _In August 1914, the German army launched an unprovoked invasion of Belgium during which they killed some 6,000 Belgian civilians which they held as hostages, wrongly suspected of sniping, or simply in order to instil fear.
Putin has gambled everything on his Snap-Invasion of Ukraine. Now his political survival in Russia is in doubt

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

_War transforms the political landscape in radical and unexpected ways. _By invading Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made an unforced error of historic proportions that will put his own survival as Russian leader in doubt if and when Russians begin to understand thathe has plunged them and their country into an unwinnable war. Moscow is seeking a decisive victory with the overthrow of the Ukrainian government and the surrender of its army.
Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake, and his concessions on Ukraine are a sign of his weakened position

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

_For the first time theRussia-Ukraine negotiations look as if they might produce a peace dealas a top Russian defence official says that Russia will dramatically reduce its military activities around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv. _This is being done to create the necessary conditions for future negotiations according to Alexander Fomin, Russias deputy defence minister attending the peace talks in Istanbul.
When does incompetence become a crime? (Counter Punch Oct 20, 2020)

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

Instead of relying on experienced public health experts with a successful record in finding, containing and isolating people infected with HIV and TB, the government handed the project over to the private sector, pouring great sums of money into the creation of a new but, in Sages judgement, dysfunctional system. I was inBaghdadin 1998 during US airstrikes, watching missiles explode in great flashes oflightas they hit their targets.
The Decline in Power of the Oil States (Counter Punch August 17, 2020)

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

President Donald Trump is cock-a-hoop over the United Arab Emirates becoming the first Arab Gulf state to normalise its relations with Israel. He needs all the good news he can get in the months before the US presidential election. HUGE breakthrough today! Historic Peace Agreement between our two GREAT friends, Israel and the United Arab Emirates! Trump tweeted.
Focusing purely on injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War mindset damages human rights everywhere

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Patrick Cockburn

During the firstCold Warbetween the West and the Soviet Union injustice andhuman rightsincreasingly became a central issue. This ought to have been a positive development, but it was devalued by partisan use and the issue turned into an instrument of propaganda. The essence of such propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.

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