In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side.