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Sublime News #2
1. In response to Gregor’s surprise over my lack of mention of the Dubai assassination – don’t think it’s important or that anything substantial will come out of it. Britain may make a media ruckus over the faking of their citizens’ passports, but in the end analysis, the UK is closely aligned with the US, [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged belarus, china, climate change, demography, economy, energy, georgia, global warming, Humor, israel, me, middle east, politics, rant, Russia Resources, russophobes, terrorism, turkey, ukraine, usa 6 Comments
Sublime News #1
I am beginning a new post category, Sublime News, in which I collate and comment on news bits and pieces that I find interesting over the past week. Whatever I write over the week will be automatically published every Saturday, 12pm (California time). This first post will be exceptional in that it will cover a [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged britain, china, climate change, corruption, demography, geopolitics, hi-tech, Humor, latin america, liberasm, morale, news 2010, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russophobes, turkey, ukraine, usa, war 11 Comments
SSR #8: On Future War
This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, resource scarcity, and renewed ideological turbulence. Be forewarned: while some of what I write here [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Also tagged chaos, china, collapse, energy, geoengineering, hi-tech, history, imperialism, Russia Resources, technology, usa, war 12 Comments
SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower
This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy of today’s “neoliberal internationalist” order promoted by the West is being questioned by the more [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, china, climate change, coal, culture, energy, environment, finance, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, japan, morale, politics, resource depletion, ssr, usa, vision, water 10 Comments
Regathering of the Russian Lands
I have long noted Russia’s resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have bought into Stratfor’s idea that the defining narrative now in play in Eurasia is Russia’s [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, demography, economy, energy, france, geopolitics, georgia, imperialism, international relations, politics, Russia Resources, ukraine, war 14 Comments
New Year Special: Year in Review and 2010 Predictions
I would like to wish all Sublime Oblivion readers a very happy and successful New Year. One of my major motivations for writing is getting comments and feedback, so please continue – the more you inflate my ego, the more time I will feel compelled to spend on the blog. Please feel free [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged china, climate change, demography, economy, france, geopolitics, germany, iran, islam, israel, middle east, peak oil, politics, Russia Resources, usa, vision, war 6 Comments
Voice of the People Part 3
This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia’s Gallup, since February 2009, and continues from Part 1 and Part 2. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social trends under late Putinism as expressed by the Russian people themselves, rather than the limousine [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged authoritarianism, baltics, belarus, corruption, culture, economy, estonia, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, liberasm, medvedev, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, soviet union, ukraine, western hypocrisy 2 Comments
Sublime News #3