Tag Archives: Russia

For what it’s worth, my own take on the issue is as follows. First, the idea that Russia is innately aggressive and expansionist if false. While Russia has certainly acted aggressively on occasions, its historical record in that regard isn’t obviously any worse than that of other major European states. Second, there’s no clear connection between regime type and aggression, either in Russia’s case or more generally; current East-West tensions owe much to clashing interests and the structure...

But what should interest us is how Russiagate allegations have tarnished America’s democratic reputation in Russia and thereby undermined the pro-American arguments of Russia’s liberal democrats, who were never a very potent political or electoral force and whose fortunes have already declined in recent years. Consider the following:... Not that the current US administration is essentially different from previous ones. It's just more blatant. These things don't happen overnight. The...

So, what is going on? Well, the US military complex is ‘for real’ on this. They are gearing-up for the coming military-standoff with China. The constant harking on themes that China is stealing America’s technology, its knowhow and its data – and now the barrage of allegations about China ‘hacking’ and (shades of the Russiagate) interfering in US elections, essentially (but not wholly) is about shaping a casus belli versus China. The rude fact is that the US military were shocked to find...

Oh, my. The Fourth Reich? And not Germany this time?Times are getting rude.The Vineyard of the SakerWhy Russia Has No Right to Surrender to the West Aleksandr Neukropny Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina SiardSee alsoThe Ghion HournalDestroying The Laws Rainer SheaSee alsoThe National InterestDon't Let Ukraine Drag America into War Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest

Considering the current single-digit popularity rating of Poroshenko and the fact that he has no chance in hell to be re-elected (at least not in minimally credible elections) it is pretty darn obvious of why the Ukronazi regime in Kiev decided to trigger yet another crisis and then blame Russia for it. The very last thing Russia needs is yet another crisis, especially not before a possible Putin-Trump meeting at the G20 Buenos Aires summit later this month. In fact, Ukrainian bloggers...

WWI and WWII began in Eastern Europe.Coincidentally, a similar situation exists in the South China Sea as in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.Any coordination with the CW attack on Aleppo?Geopolitical AlertTensions Flair in Black Sea & Donbass Days After UK’s New Deployments to Region Jim Carey Fort Russ NewsBREAKING: Ukraine Begins Heavy Shelling of Donetsk Republic Joaquin Flores TASSRussia asks for convening UN SC meeting on Sea of Azov situation TASSUkraine’s Security Council...

Russia, you see, has a serious problem with population decline. They’re expecting a 28 percent plunge in women of childbearing age by 2032. Their population peaked at about 148 million, in 1991. You might notice that as the year of the collapse of communism. After the revolution, a series of factors — including introduction to the joys of international capitalism, with the accompanying loss of free health care, spiking economic inequality, accelerated substance abuse, etc. — caused Russia...

I spend most of my time on this blog mocking all the exaggerated nonsense which passes for political commentary nowadays. It’s a rare day that I come across something which is both stimulating and well-written. Fortunately, this is one of those days. Via Facebook (which has its uses), I was pointed in the direction of an excellent article by Patrick Lawrence in this summer’s edition of the magazine Raritan Quarterly, of which I had not previously been aware. I can recommend it to you all,...

According to [Finance Minister Anton] Siluanov, the Russian authorities are working to avoid using the dollar in foreign trade, and start to carry out transactions in euros, rubles and other currencies.… “The list of countries that want to reduce their dependence on the US currency is large and includes all states that have already suffered or those who fear suffering from the dollar’s extremism,” the author said.... Fort Russ NewsMajor: Russia Responds to Sanctions – Will Phase Out Usd...

The official justifications for this latest set of sanctions proves that they are not the real reasons because they are too ridiculous to be taken seriously by any thinking person. The ever-changing Skripalmania story, preposterous at the outset, has descended into incoherence as the crack Russian assassination team is now said to be using public toilets to remix “novichok” to put into perfume atomisers. The OPCW certified last October that Russia had eliminated its CW stocks; who is...