Tag: Soviet Union
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What If The Russian Military Isn’t The “Threat” We’ve Told Ourselves It Is?
As of this morning, four days into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has not achieved any of what we in the West assumed were his objectives. Taking Kyiv, for instance. Taking ANY Ukrainian city for that matter. As of right now, all Russia can claim to occupy is Ukrainian farmland. Whatever’s planted in those fields…
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Vladimir Putin Is Waaaaay More Russia’s “Head Gangster” Than Russia’s “Head Of State”
Only in America – in America’s news media – is Vladimir Putin any sort of “legitimate head of state”. But then, for context, America’s news media still thinks of (and treats) the Republican Party as legitimate actors in American politics. Donald Trump has handed our press not merely a smoking gun, but a smoking thermonuclear…
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The Horror… The Horror…
At the climax of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Francis Coppola’s take on it “Apocalypse Now”, the character Kurtz (an ivory trader in the book, a renegade military officer in the movie) knows he’s about to die. Kurtz says “…in a whisper at some image, at some vision… a cry that was no more…
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Let’s Be Clear – What we call “Syria”, Putin Calls “Russia-South” – And We Just Handed Russia-South A Big Win
Vladimir Putin has never been shy about his goals. Aside from remaining the richest man on earth (because he’s also the most corrupt), Putin wants to restore the “Greater Russia” that the Soviet Union had, but lost. And he wants to restore Russia to “Greater Russia” at our expense. After all, it was America that…
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Dear American Main Stream News Media: There’s A Difference Between “COMPLEX” & “COMPLICATED” — Trump-Russia Is Complex; It Is NOT Complicated…
Let’s try and make this simple. Love is complex but it should never be complicated because the act of loving, itself, is simple (regardless of how complicated some people make it). Same token — the Trump-Russia story. It’s staggeringly complex with a million moving parts and (by design) lots of layers to make connecting all…