On our view of the Russians
If we want to understand the hysterical reaction to what has been going on between Russia, America and Ukraine in recent days, we need to go back to what went…
Specialists in losing
When I am critical in these glosses, I am critical of schools of thought to which I am somehow close. I don’t criticize the Greens, for example, because I just…
David Martinek: Never threaten the Russians with weapons
Russian President Putin announced that Moscow will recognise the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. He gave a long and very detailed speech to this.…
Should Ukraine be part of NATO?
The right question in the Czech Republic is whether it is in the interest of the citizens of the Czech Republic that Ukraine should be in NATO. That is to…
Russians are old-fashioned
Women and children are being evacuated from Donetsk, and the reader in the Czech Republic realises how much we in the West have become so rude. A generation ago, it…
The liberal lottery
In the early 1990s, economic reform was underway in the Czech Republic (and before that in Czechoslovakia). In many ways it was similar to that which had taken place a…