Category Archives: Regimes

It’s malice not cowardice

Posted on June 25, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban What could prompt anyone to suggest that Australia’s current government attitude to Israel is “cowardice dressed in the robes of diplomacy”? It’s more like belligerent antisemitism dressed in the robes of belligerent antisemitism. It’s visible in the … Continue reading →

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The Greek tragedy of Joseph Biden and the Democrats

Posted on May 14, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban and Grok AI Look at how discombobulated the US Democrats now are, along with the left in general. They hero-worship terrorists, attack law enforcement officers and howl with impotent fury at the Donald Trump moon. Symptoms of … Continue reading →

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Don’t fall for Putin’s NATO furphy

Posted on February 13, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban As Trump and Putin spend over an hour on the phone today (Feb. 13 as I write) to talk potential peace, I wish I could have listened in. And interrupted … Putin makes a big deal complaining … Continue reading →

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The Global Peace Summit hurt not helped Ukraine

Posted on June 17, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Neighbours from all over gathered after a violent house invasion and wrung their hands. There were 90 of them. They tut-tutted. Shook their heads in disapproval. The invaders were refusing to leave, so the neighbours spoke of … Continue reading →

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His story as history – Oleg Vidov

Posted on June 5, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Q: What do Succession star Brian Cox and Australia’s filmmaker Nadia Tass, of Malcolm* and Amy* fame, have in common? A: Oleg Vidov. Cox narrates Tass’ 97 minute documentary about the late Oleg Borisovich Vidov (1943-2017), once … Continue reading →

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The Conformist – cancel culture & Fascism

Posted on April 8, 2024 by andrew

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece, adapted from the 1951 Alberto Moravia novel is a case study in conformism under a Fascist regime. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a conformist mid-level Fascist functionary in Mussolini’s Italy who is ordered … Continue reading →

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Trump could trump Putin on Ukraine

Posted on March 4, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Vladimir Putin is playing his cards in the Ukraine Invasion Stakes as if he held the trump card. A resolute player at the table might well trump that card. On the 2nd anniversary of his invasion of … Continue reading →

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Volodymyr Zelensky – the frontline President

Posted on January 22, 2024 by andrew

The second book by Andrew L. Urban and Chris McLeod to examine Ukraine’s President in the context of the Russian invasion of February 2022, contrasts Zelensky, often at the front line leading his military with Russia’s Vladimir Putin anywhere but … Continue reading →

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Why Russia shouldn’t lead the UN Security Council

Posted on April 18, 2023 by andrew

SVITLANA MORENET in The Spectator (April 16, 2023) has written a useful analysis of Russia’s position in the UN. Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations, an organisation created to ‘maintain international peace and security’ after the Second … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Was Conned

Posted on April 24, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Brought up in the grunt town of  Kryvyi Rih, a Soviet-looking industrial city in the southeast of Ukraine, a centre of iron mining and metallurgy, Volodymyr Zelensky knew about bullies before he left school. To survive among … Continue reading →

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