We are though far closer to the Medieval than the Classical world - in a place of apocalyptic dread, frenzied self-doubt and a security riven by faltering contingencies.

Poland’s position has always been precarious.

Ukraine become a chess piece for the new Cold War.

Britain faces a more grave threat from within than from without.

The Chinese balloon handily tested the Americans' mettle and showed it lacking once again.

The most immediate implications of this will be for Ukraine.

Washington is increasing the probability that it will lose the real prize, SE Asia, to keep a sideshow, Ukraine.

Mearsheimer contends that the American strategy of encouraging the 2014 Euromaidan clashes in Kiev and courting Ukraine into NATO and the European Union is considered in Russia to be an existential threat.