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Short review of Ron Ridenour's new book. Ridenour is a foreign policy realist. Reminiscence of the FutureThe Russian Peace Threat by Ron RidenourAndrei Martyanov

Both reports look at the usage data and the content themes the IRA run pages provided. Both claim that the intent of the IRA was to influence the election and to sow discord within the U.S. population. But there is no, none, nada, zero evidence in the data that the IRA had such an intent. Nor is their any testimony or statement on it. In contrast the Muller investigation, which looked into the case, found evidence that the IRA had a commercial intent. Unfortunately this is mentioned...

More humor. Did you know that Russia is now weaponizing humor. The BBC just said so. Moon of AlabamaHow Putin's Russia Weaponizes XSee alsoCaitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistDon’t Laugh : It’s Giving Putin What He WantsCaitlin Johnstone See also   Russian President Vladimir Putin is surpassing dashing Japanese heartthrobs in 2019 calendar sales thanks to an unexpected legion of young fans.The calendar, exclusively sold by popular Japanese chainstore Loft, has reportedly surpassed all...

Narrative creation operates based on pattern-recognition and repetition. "Tell a lie big enough and often enough and …. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous. — Joseph Goebbles, Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik, quoted in Big Lie at...

Smackdown. It’s a common complaint that Russian media are controlled by the state. By contrast, the Western media, and Western opinion formers, such as academics and think tank members, are considered to be independent and impartial. Yet in reality, the relationship between them is often far cozier than people understand, and sometimes far cozier than it ought to be. I’m sure that everybody involved in the Integrity Initiative believes that they are acting for the best. But if they have...

Inquiring minds would like to know why the UK is so interested in discrediting the Russian government. It's clearly not just "making the world safe for democracy" or defending Western liberal values and traditions.Something of this size and intensity suggests only one thing, "Follow the money." What's up with this? Has it something to do with the British financial empire that replaced the British political empire? What else could that be, and if this is it, what is the underlying...

Assumptions are extremely important. If they’re wrong, everything which follows is probably wrong too. So when analysts don’t make their assumptions clear to policy makers, but instead try to pass them off as facts, there’s a great danger that poor decisions will result. What brings this to mind is a new report by Duncan Allan, published by Chatham House and entitled Managed Confrontation: UK Policy Towards Russia After the Salisbury Attack.... While what professor Robinson says is clearly...

The crazies gets crazier. President Trump seems to have lost control of them, prompting the question, who is the president now anyway.Just as with Iraq and WMD, the New Times and the Washington Post are driving the crazy.The NationMore Cold War Extremism and Crises Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton UniversitySee also As the United States squeezes China economically through an escalating trade war, it is...

Reading all this, one feels like one is living in wacko-land. And it’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. I read some of this stuff for laughs. Unfortunately, it passes for truth in corporate media and is apparently taken seriously in policy circles. Irrussianality Living in wacko-land Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Before getting down to brass tacks, let me say that I loathe penning articles like this; loathe writing about myself or in the first person, because a reporter should report the news, not be the news. Yet I grudgingly make this exception because, ironically, it happens to be newsworthy. To cut to the chase, it concerns Anglo-American financier Bill Browder and the Sergei Magnitsky affair. I, like others in the news business I’d venture to guess, feel led astray by Browder. This is no...