Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Monday, August 20, 2018

Brexit: a monumental "cock-up", or a "project" designed to destroy Britain? Historical parallels with Russia

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There exist two competing schools of thought that try to explain how "Brexit" has been allowed to happen in the uniquely-disruptiv...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

British psychology, WW2 nostalgia, and Brexit

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This blogger recently was reminded of how commonplace events like "WW2 nostalgia" days are in Britain. This got me thinking about ...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Anti-Semitism, and a history of the "International Jewish Conspiracy"

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From the USA to the UK, it seems that Anti-Semitism is on the rise (again) in the developed world. Evidence points towards the truism that w...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

The War in Ukraine, European context and the Minsk II "ceasefire": Putin's power-play

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A year ago, the "Euromaidan" protests in Ukraine against the pro-Russian Yanukovich government culminated in a mass shooting in th...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

The loss of MH17, Russia and the West's response: a parable of the times

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The events leading up to the downing of flight MH17 have the appearance of something from a Hollywood disaster movie. Collating the various ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

A real-life "Game Of Thrones": The Multi-polar world of the 21st century

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Events of the last five years have displayed the shift in the global centres of power. Fifteen years ago, the USA was the unchallenged ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

The nature of power: from Feudalism to 21st century Capitalism

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The word "feudalism" evokes images of slavery: medieval serfdom, peasants bound to serve a class of landed gentry. By definition, ...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

American foreign policy, the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS in Iraq: is nihilism the "new normal"?

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Nature abhors a vacuum. If you look through periods of history over the last two thousand years or so, every so often you see periods of t...