Once more, the core principle of western codes of justice, individual responsibility, is cast aside when a crime is committed by an outsider; all of his kind must be punished.

While the nature of some challenges facing the EU in 2025 is new, the structural impediments are not. It can be tricky to do economic statecraft when you are not, in fact, a state.

We will learn a lot about the future of the EU from its reaction to this 28 point plan.

Fair dinkum, ‘Straya!

As Israel plans to escalate its genocide through indefinite military presence, displacing most of the Palestinian population & militarizing aid distribution, in defiance of international law, EU leaders' failure to prevent genocide & to bring it to an end increasingly risks complicity.

Methinks the Mario doth protest too much.