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A Trial of Spiritual Resolve: Sergey Lavrov’s Speech to the Military Academy of the General Staff
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root… Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Western Europe
Tagged economy, Education, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade
1,782 Comments
When I Fight Reality, Reality Always Wins.
When I hear the phrase, “American rocker”, I frequently think of John Mellencamp. He started out in the 1970’s, professionally, as ‘John Cougar’ because his manager said nobody would ever buy a record by someone named John Mellencamp. Eventually, when … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Europe, Government, Investment, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, GAZPROM, government, Politics, Russia, Trade, Ukraine
1,750 Comments
Get in There and Win One For Mom and Apple Pie: Non-Combatant Molly McKew Pounds the War Drum
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Georgia, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Religion, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism, Trade, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Saakashvili, Trade, Ukraine, War
2,348 Comments
What Does Freedom Mean to You? Putin at Valdai, 2016
American protest songs, lyrically at least, showcase that as an expression of national consciousness, Americans lost their understanding of what freedom means somewhere in the early 1970’s. Sentiment against dictatorships and enslavement of populations gave way to more America-centric problems, … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, Education, government, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, tragedy
2,432 Comments
The Quality of Mercy
“Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere” -George W. Bush The western press, and the political systems it serves, are rousing themselves to a frenzy of effort to stop the Syrian government forces from re-taking … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism
Tagged economy, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, War
2,542 Comments
Seeing More of the Big Picture in Ukraine
They whisper still, the injured stones, the blunted mountains weep As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap And say the Mea Culpa, which you’ve gradually forgot Year by year Month by month Day … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Investment, Law and Order, Politics, Russia, Trade, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Yulia Tymoshenko
Tagged economy, government, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, Ukraine, War, Yulia Tymoshenko
1,214 Comments
Who Needs Luck When Your Enemies Are Stupid?
“People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have.” -Anne Tyler “Luck is a word the bitter teach the ignorant” -Steve Maraboli; “Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience” Perhaps this would be … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Investment, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, government, Politics, Russia, Trade
714 Comments
Putin is Weaponizing Popularity: Newsweek is not Amused.
“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.” – André Breton How appropriate, to say nothing of au courant, … Continue reading
Posted in Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov, Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Vladimir Putin
Tagged Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov, economy, Education, government, liberal opposition, Military, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, War
2,623 Comments
The Madness of Anders Aslund; Economic Advice for Ideologues With Too Much Money
Unwrap yourself for a starving man Come drown your thoughts if they bite you Turn off the world if it makes you hurt I’m just a clown but I like you… Max Webster, from “Let Go the Line” What follows … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Investment, Law and Order, Russia, Trade, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged corporation, economy, government, greed, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, Ukraine
1,887 Comments
Red Hot Jingoism, With a Side of Apple Pie
Peruse, if you will, this sabre-rattling pile of poop. Coming on the heels of recent articles which warn that the west sees a nuclear war as both winnable and possible, even probable, and the conviction that a new western strategy … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Europe, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, government, Military, Russia, Technology, Trade, War
492 Comments
The Kremlin Stooge 