So I decide to write about Putin’s mistakes to counter my public image as “ein strammer Putin-soldat“, and guess what, the first comment I get denounces me as a “completely naive and/or delusional person” for daring to “take “Russia’s corruption trends” seriously” (I suppose it proves the old dictim that you can’t please everyone all of […]
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Translation: On Liberasts and Liberasty
This Post, Translation in Da Russophile
about Politics, and tagged , was written
by Anatoly Karlin on April 24, 2010 . 17 Comments
In which I Criticize Vladimir Putin
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by Anatoly Karlin on April 22, 2010 . 22 Comments
I’ve been accused of being a “Russophile cockroach”, an “amoral Putin lackey”, and overall bad guy. Guilty as charged! Yes, I do like Russia and don’t have much good to say about the Western media’s coverage of it. Yes, I don’t give much of damn for the moralistic posturing that any vapid idiot Kremlinologist can easily […]
Book Review: Peter Turchin – War and Peace and War
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by Anatoly Karlin on April 8, 2010 . 21 Comments
Then you might get something like Peter Turchin’s War and Peace and War, which I’ve finally read on the recommendations of Kolya and TG. Ranging from Ermak’s subjugation of the Sibir Khanate to the rise of Rome, Turchin makes the case that the rise and fall of empires is reducible to three basic concepts: 1) […]
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