About
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: war
New Year Special: 2012 Predictions
It’s been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, futurism, geopolitics, germany, global warming, greece, hungary, iran, israel, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, putin, russia, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
215 Comments
Putin The Peaceful?
At least, surely more so than Obama, winner of 2009′s Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s do it by the numbers. Russia under Putin fought one war, in response to Georgian aggression against Ossetians with Russian citizenship and UN-mandated Russian peacekeepers. In contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged china, obama, putin, russia, war, western hypocrisy, western media
77 Comments
New Year Special, Part 2: 2011 Predictions
Carrying on from yesterday’s 2010 in Review, I’ll now lay out my predictions for this year and see how well last year’s stacked up to reality. (1) Last year, I wrote: “World economy continues an anemic recovery, though there are … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, coal, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, israel, italy, luzhkov, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, russia, spain, uk, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
10 Comments
REPRINT: Wikileaks And The South Ossetia War
Though I originally meant to write my own analysis of what the Wikileaks cables have contributed to our understanding of the 2008 South Ossetia War, I realized that I would essentially be trying to duplicate the excellent efforts of Patrick … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged cablegate, georgia, guest, human rights, imperialism, international relations, military, nato, russia, usa, war, western hypocrisy, western media, wikileaks
12 Comments
Chechnya, A Once And Future War?
Truly, if Willian Burns were to issue an anthology of his Moscow cables during his 2005-2008 ambassadorship, I’d seriously consider buying it. Just consider this cable from May 2006, on Chechnya’s “Once and Future War”, a nuanced US view of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged cable, chechnya, corruption, human rights, imperialism, islam, nationalism, politics, russia, terrorism, usa, war, wikileaks, william burns
7 Comments
Why Russia And China Won’t Fight
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Почему Россия и Китай не будут воевать друг с другом). Every so often there appear claims, not only in the Western press but the Russian one, that (rising but overpopulated) … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, futurism, geopolitics, imperialism, military, nuclear, nuclear war, russia, vision, war
51 Comments
Russia Updates: Luzhkov, Rearmament, GDP
As you may have noticed, posting has slowed down in the past few days, mostly thanks to a combination of (1) Kindle, (2) 中文 and (3) the natural periods of apathy that afflict most non-pro bloggers. I don’t really see that … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged conscription, demography, economy, global warming, me, military, moscow, politics, public health, russia, war
14 Comments
Arab Rearmament & US MIC Price Gouging
Sorry for not posting on either of my blogs for almost a week now and being slow on responding to the emails. I’ve been rediscovering the pleasures of old-fashioned book reading after purchasing a Kindle. I’m very happy with it. … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged fighters, iraq, military, romania, saudi arabia, uae, usa, venezuela, war
9 Comments
My Interview on Middle East Geopolitics, Afghanistan and Iran & the Bomb with Marat Kunaev
I was recently interviewed on Middle East geopolitics and the Iran Question by Marat Kunaev, a blogger and translator at InoForum. I would like to thank him for the opportunity to express my views on the topic and providing a possible … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, china, energy, futurism, geopolitics, georgia, india, international relations, interview, iran, islam, islamophobia, israel, me, middle east, military, peak water, rise of the rest, russia, usa, war, water, western hypocrisy
38 Comments
Review of “The Lucifer Principle” (H. Bloom), or: Fascism is the Natural State
Depressingly fatalist, morbidly truthful, irresistibly Nietzschean. That’s Howard Bloom’s “The Lucifer Principle” in a nutshell: a meandering trawl through disciplines such as genetics, psychology and culture that culminates in a theory of evil, purporting to explain its historical necessity, its creative … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, culture, demography, feminism, history, human rights, imperialism, islam, life, morale, politics, psychology, review, war, western hypocrisy
19 Comments