Ian Proud Group

Dear all,

Firstly, thank you for following my posts and joining my site. When I started getting active back in March, I frankly had no clear plan for what I wanted to do with this. As the year has gone on, and as the statesmanship vacuum on critical global issues hasn't shifted, I have found an ever increasing list of issues to write about. THANK YOU for being part of that journey.

Really keen to know you all better and hear your thoughts and ideas as we move into 2025.

For my part, I'm sceptical that things will improve under Trump, having been in Moscow the last time he became President. I do think there will be more pressure to end the war as the battlefield realities remain stacked against Ukraine, and the political and economic burden on western nations becomes ever harder to sustain. But how the war ends,…