Saying the F-35 can’t beat the F-16 in a dogfight is a little like complaining that a tank can’t beat a horse at a fence jump and calling for a return to the age of cavalry charges.

Shocker for the eurocrats, anyway. Their ideological blinkers appear to be preventing them from even imagining that their Syriza interlocutors see the world in a fundamentally different way from them.

Is Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar investment in Russia window dressing, or something more?

If Iran is able to boost oil exports as part of sanctions relief, Russia stands to lose the most.

The financial crisis in China took an ominous turn for the worse yesterday as investors dumped shares despite government-led measures to stabilize prices. If this continues, it could be the biggest story of the year; maybe of the decade.

A new and supposedly more professional and incorruptible police force is being rolled out in Ukraine, but the reform doesn’t seem to get at the structural problems that make Ukrainian state employees so corrupt in the first place.

Bush suggested that a strong political order is a precondition for for liberal democracy.

Turkey and China are in a diplomatic row over Beijing’s crackdown on its Muslim Uighur minority during Ramadan.

The Texas Supreme Court struck down a burdensome state licensing law. Let’s hope more states shed licensing laws, and soon.

“The card with it, which had a teddy bear dressed as a hobo on the front, explained that Greece made us this because they don’t have enough money for a present, which brought a tear to my eye,” Mario Draghi is reported to have said.