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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: visegrad
SSR #10: Europe, The Black Continent
This is the first of fifteen Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. I am going to start off by looking at Europe, defined as the region under the influence of Western Christianity and/or the European Union … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, core article, demography, economy, eire, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, history, imperialism, international relations, islam, italy, military, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, russia, scotland, spain, ssr, sweden, turkey, uk, usa, visegrad, vision
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The Return of the Reich?
This is my second follow-up post to The Belief Matrix, in which I attempted to advance a universal model for civilizational responses to subsistence crises (The Malthusian Loop) and the Western challenge (The Sisyphean Loop). This time I will look at … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, collapse, culture, demography, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, history, imperialism, international relations, matrix, morale, peak oil, poland, politics, russia, visegrad, vision
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The US Strategic Dilemma and Persian Deadlock
This is the second article of a three-part series about the Iranian Question – that is, the question of how the world is going to deal with the Islamic regime’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb, which is likely to be … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged central asia, china, economy, energy, international relations, iran, israel, medvedev, middle east, military, peak oil, poland, visegrad, vision
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
On the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, signed on August 23, 1939 (also my birthday!), historians, ideologues and everyone in between inevitably fall into a game of recriminations, revisionism and … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, france, history, human rights, international relations, poland, politics, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, uk, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
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Top 50 Russophobe Myths
This is a list of common Russophobe myths about Russia and its people, and the successor to a March 2008 post on a similar theme. Please be sure to check the supporting notes at the bottom before dismissing this as neo-Soviet … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, chechnya, china, communism, core article, culture, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, kosovo, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, putin, russians, russophobes, serbia, soviet union, stalin, ukraine, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
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Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of History
This is a summary of my views on the controversy surrounding the “Stalinist” Russian history textbooks, with the translation of the most offending chapter in question given here. This was originally published at Johnson’s Russia List. Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged history, human rights, russians, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
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Bitch Slappers of the Next 100 Years
George Friedman at Stratfor is one of my favorite analysts on world geopolitics. This is because he tries to look at the world as it is, without the pointless moralizing, neoliberal ideologizing and end-of-history triumphalism that clouds too much American … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, climate change, demography, energy, geopolitics, hi-tech, history, international relations, japan, middle east, military, space, technology, ukraine, usa, visegrad, vision
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