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Open Thread 179: Russia/Ukraine Cont
•�March 9, 2022
•�411 Comments • Reply
Like it or not, but shock and disbelief is inevitable.
Open Thread 178: Russia/Ukraine
•�March 4, 2022
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The last Open Thread is getting very sluggish, so here's another one. Again, please use the MORE Tag to hide all but your first Tweet and otherwise keep the thread load manageable as long as possible. --- Ron Unz
Twitter Bans for "Undermining Confidence in the NATO Alliance"
•�February 26, 2021
•�300 Words •�37 Comments
Several months ago, I speculated why Twitter would suspend the Valdai Club (a milquetoast discussion group that largely centers around economics issues and has a large component of systemic liberals within in). Now we have an answer. RT: Twitter is an American company and it's long been clear that it is used along with Facebook... Read More
When Russians Were Americanophiles
•�December 18, 2017
•�700 Words •�520 Comments
At the tail end of the Cold War, there was an incredible atmosphere of Americanophilia throughout the USSR, including amongst Russians. Blue - approve of USA; orange - disapprove. Around 75%-80% of Russians approved of the United States around 1990, versus <10% disapproval. By modern standards, this would have put Russia into the top leagues... Read More
Russia Is Weaponizing... Comedy
•�March 17, 2017
•�500 Words •�6 Comments
I was under the impression this particular meme was played out, and replaced by the "Russian Hackers" one, but it appears not. By request of the Latvian Ministry of Defense, courtesy of NATO's Strategic Communications Centre for Excellence, and in all likelihood paid for by your tax dollars, we have the following report: Stratcom Laughs:... Read More
NATO Popularity Falls in Ukraine
•�February 16, 2017
•�300 Words •�5 Comments
Gallup: It might be news to you that NATO was ever expected to help Ukraine with its... crisis, but for many svidomy Ukrainians it is a long-running delusion. One way that vatniks like to make fun of svidomy is by referencing the TyaschaVDen' meme (One Thousand Grivnas per Day), based on Poroshenko's promise in 2014... Read More
World Tension: Rising
•�June 18, 2016
•�1,300 Words •�37 Comments
Just a collection of completely random, not very important news snippets. (1) Diplomats’ Dissent Bolsters Calls for U.S. Assault on Assad: For now, the Obama administration seems inclined to agree. A U.S. official who did not sign the memo but read it told Foreign Policy that the document was unlikely to influence Oval Office policy... Read More
Trump to Get NATO Off Our Backs?
•�March 25, 2016
•�900 Words •�16 Comments
The purpose of NATO has always been to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down, according to its own first Secretary General. If any one leg of this tripod fails - the whole thing comes tumbling down. At least as the imperialist, anti-national, anti-Orthodox, and Russophobic project it was always construed... Read More
What Happened In Georgia Was An Oligarchic Coup
•�October 14, 2012
•�2,000 Words •�29 Comments
My latest for US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel on whether to view the recent Georgian elections, in which Saakashvili's United National Movement lost a lot of power, as a Kremlin coup or a triumph of democracy. My view that it isn't really either: Two dominant themes prevailed in media coverage of the 2012 Georgian elections (1)... Read More
Making Sense of Russia's Arms Binge
•�February 21, 2012
•�1,200 Words •�15 Comments
In the wake of Putin's article on national security for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, there has been renewed interest in Russia's ambitious military modernization plans for the next decade. I am not a specialist in this (unlike Dmitry Gorenberg and Mark Galeotti, whom I highly recommend), but I do think I can bring much-needed facts and good... Read More
Putin the Peaceful?
•�November 15, 2011
•�200 Words •�78 Comments
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, Obama has participated in two wars of aggression: the Iraq War he inherited from... Read More
In Which la Russophobe Interviews the Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion
•�May 27, 2011
•�12,600 Words •�23 Comments
Two weeks ago, I received a Facebook message from Kim Zigfeld, she of the infamous La Russophobe, asking me if I was interested in an interview with her. It didn't take long for me to come to the wrong decision! And so commenced our interview. It was a long grind. After ceaseless goings back and... Read More
REPRINT: Wikileaks and the South Ossetia War
•�December 24, 2010
•�2,200 Words •�12 Comments
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 Armstrong. (See also the New York Times article Embracing Georgia, U.S. Misread Signs of Rifts).... Read More
Translation: On Canada's Arctic Militarization
•�November 21, 2010
•�1,300 Words •�21 Comments
This is a reprint of a post from Arctic Progress. This is a TRANSLATION of an article by Jules Dufour published September 7th, 2010 at Mondialisation.ca ("Le Canada: un plan national pour la militarisation de l'Arctique et de ses ressources stratégiques"). In my opinion its a tad too alarmist over the scope of Canada's military... Read More
Spooks, Mercs or Merchants Over Iceland?
•�September 5, 2010
•�400 Words •�7 Comments
This is a reprint of a post from Arctic Progress. Back when Iceland tipped over into financial collapse during 2008 and the UK seized Icelandic banks’ assets using anti-terrorist laws as fig cover, Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar stated that Russia could make use of the Keflavik air base in return for a $5bn loan to... Read More
Regathering of the Russian Lands
•�January 27, 2010
•�4,700 Words •�14 Comments
I have long noted Russia's resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have bought into Stratfor's idea that the defining narrative now in play in Eurasia is Russia's... Read More
Perils of Water
•�August 22, 2009
•�1,400 Words •�6 Comments
Three interesting stories, all tied with Russia and water. 1. The explosion at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia. Though the official Russian version is that it was a blown transformer, the Chechen separatists / terrorists are claiming that it's their work: [...talks about their recent militant attacks in Ingushetia & threatens those who cooperate with... Read More
New Russia-Georgia War?
•�August 4, 2009
•�1,500 Words •�44 Comments
Whispers of war are heard in the Caucasus, as the anniversary of last year's South Ossetian War approaches. Will the guns of August be fired in anger to mark the occasion? Here are some things we need to keep in mind when analyzing this: It was Georgia that attacked South Ossetia last year, mere hours... Read More
Review of “the Prodigal Superpower” by Steven Rosefielde
•�July 6, 2009
•�3,700 Words •�11 Comments
Rosefielde, Steven – Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower (2004) Category: political economy, Russia, transition, military; Rating: 4/5 Summary: Google books; Introduction This is a book about Russia's past, and its alleged return to the future. Rosefielde outlines his theory that the Soviet Union was a "prodigal superpower", exchanging Spartan living standards for... Read More
Top 50 Russophobe Myths
•�July 4, 2009
•�16,700 Words •�40 Comments
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 propaganda. Also partially available en français & на русском thanks to Alexandre Latsa's translation.... Read More
Victory Day Special: the Poisonous Myths of the Eastern Front
•�May 9, 2009
•�4,700 Words •�54 Comments
За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! The Red Army was the single greatest contributor to the defeat of Nazi Germany sixty-four years ago, a truly evil empire based on slavery and oppression, and responsible for the genocide of millions of Slav civilians, Jews, Soviet POW's and Roma by gas, bullets and... Read More
Hubris in the Heartland
•�February 17, 2009
•�3,000 Words
The Western MSM (mainstream media) was abuzz the last few weeks about how Obama's apparent extension of a hand to Russia did not make them willing to unclench their fist, citing the closure of the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan. This was linked to Russia's announcement of 150mn $ in aid and 2bn $ of credit... Read More
The Corpse Stumbles On, Unaware It's Already Dead
•�November 28, 2008
•�1,300 Words
The ludicrous claims spouted by Saakashvili continue falling apart as soon as his febrile mind makes them, forcing even the most ardent Cold Warriors to temper their uncompromising narrative of "Russian aggression against the 'fledgling' Georgian democracy". And despite the impressive achievements of Georgian infowar, after many tribulations the truth came out. OCSE monitors confirmed... Read More
News 7 Apr: NATO Founders, Western Media Deconstructed
•�April 7, 2008
•�4,900 Words •�6 Comments
America's desire to have Ukraine and Georgia accede to MAP foundered on European opposition from Germany, France and (somewhat surprisingly) the UK, despite Saakashvili's implicit comparison of this to Nazi appeasement. Nonetheless, this is good for NATO as an alliance (as we've covered previously, the European desire for a rapprochement is linked to Russian logistical... Read More
News 30 March: the Paradoxes of Russophobia
•�March 30, 2008
•�1,500 Words •�5 Comments
Medvedev gives his first foreign media interview (to the Financial Times), in which he charts the bedrock of his presidency. Will continue to pursue primarily Russia's, not the West's, interests. Will work in tandem with Putin, to whom he is neither puppet nor rebel. Will strive to root out "legal nihilism" / proizvol in Russia... Read More
News 19 Mar: It Takes 2 (Or 3) to Tango in Human Rights
•�March 19, 2008
•�900 Words •�2 Comments
The US State Department has released its latest human rights report - as usual, a veritable list of America's bugbears (North Korea, Myanmar, Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan are the 'top ten'). It is true that the majority of the above are pretty odious regimes, with the partial exception of Belarus... Read More
News 8 Feb
•�February 8, 2008
•�1,200 Words •�9 Comments
Bertelsmann Stiftung has released Who Rules the World?, a very interesting survey where people from different countries are asked: what are the Great Powers today?, what makes a country a Great Power? and which countries will be Great Powers in 2020? Now the title of Great Power is something that is given to a country,... Read More
News 25 Jan
•�January 25, 2008
•�800 Words
The conventional wisdom seems to be that Russia, due to its strong macroeconomic fundamentals and relative isolation from the world economy, will weather the oncoming credit crisis well. In fact, Kudrin (the Finance Minister) suggested 'Russia and other countries with large gold and currency reserves can...can support the global economy by flexing the financial might... Read More
News 11 Jan
•�January 11, 2008
•�1,100 Words •�3 Comments
Net capital inflow into Russia hit $82.3 bln in 2007 This is around 6% of Russian (nominal) GDP. Foreign investors are rushing in to buy into Russian IPO's. Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ raised exports 7.9% y-o-y in 2007 Foreign car manufacturers aim to raise car production up to 1mn by 2012. This means that around about... Read More
Annals of Western Hypocrisy - Georgia Presidential Elections 2008
•�January 9, 2008
•�1,700 Words •�8 Comments
Saakashvili wins Georgian elections in first round (January 6th) This normally wouldn't matter much, but bearing in mind the narrowness of Saakashvili's final score (52.21 as of 8 Jan) this can be significant. The perception of the fairness of the vote was important because the Bush administration has cited Saakashvili's government as an example of... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.