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Red Menace
One might be forgiven for thinking we’ve been trapped in some sort of time-warp-nexus lately. The Germans have bloodied the English yet again, Paul Krugman thinks we’re doomed to repeat the Long...
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Treason Doesn’t Pay
…or so Vladimir Putin reminds us. As the ten accused Russian spies returned home, Putin said that their outing was a “betrayal,” and vowed that there would be “tough times for the traitors,” whose...
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Man of Action
Plenty more where these came from. H/T to Juha. Tagged: government, humor, Russia
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Lines Drawn, Sides Chosen
One of the more interesting results of last night’s UNSC vote to authorize a no-fly zone over Libya was the voting pattern of the Council. More specifically, the abstentions. Look at the countries that...
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A Pretty Prize
This is a portion of a post that had been in the works for some time, but was, as they say, overtaken by events. Today, France announced that it would sell the pair of Mistral-class helicopter...
View Article“There is no ‘new way of war’. It is not Gerasimov’s, and it is not a doctrine.”
A brilliant, self-declared “polemic against the use of the term the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ to describe a supposed dramatic turn in Russian strategic thinking.” Mark Galeotti has been writing about the...
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The Madness of Contingency
The other night, while watching Deutschland ’83, I found myself wondering what a 1990s-era Soviet Union – and Eastern Bloc, in general – might have looked like. What a world of possibility! To what...
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The Self-Inflicted Myth of Omnipotent Russia
One of many examples of the Russian/Soviet octopus in art, its tentacles implying a dominion it possesses anything but.If you haven’t yet had a chance to read Keith Gessen’s terrific article on the...
View ArticleSanctions and Financial Warfare in the 21st Century
In July of this year, China’s first regiment of S-400 surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems was delivered by Russia and accepted into PLA service. The following month, Russia confirmed that the last 10...
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Quick Thoughts on INF
Another treaty – this time, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) – slain by John Bolton, the unilateralest man alive. It will come as no shock that I find this move misguided, executed in bad faith,...
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