The COVID-19 outbreak provides a sharp demonstration of the loss of the West’s mojo.

If Moscow has had its fill of three decades of insults, offences and calumnies and wants to make a point, cutting relations with the EU structure would be the place to start: easy and cheap.

Russophrenia: a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both about to collapse, and take over the world.

The Trump Administration is saying “my way or the highway”. The Europeans are certainly big enough to set off on the highway by themselves.

“What do we SCF writers have in common? Well, Dear Reader, look around you. Certainly we question The Truth,” Patrick Armstrong writes.

You’d think that a country that had been at war for that much of its existence, would be pretty good at it. But you’d be wrong.

It’s freely available and it’s inexpensive enough that every pundit can have a personal copy.

Russians have figured out that they weren’t welcome, they aren’t welcome and they never will be welcome. It is unlikely that another 6 years of hysterical Russophobia will have convinced the Russian public that the West is more welcoming.

If forced to admit that Moscow is playing by the rules, they retort that it’s only to better break them tomorrow.

Russia is not inferior, not “Asiatic”, not uncivilised, not uncultured; different. It’s a “civilisation state”, like China, Patrick Armstrong writes.