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Is Brooks the new Jack Hershey on ET?

It is a mistake to assume something is not as it appears, because most things are as they appear. Conspiracies are extremely rare. Even in international politics. They do occur, but don't assume them to be present. Instead, look for confirmation before jumping to conclusions. The simplest...

I should add that whether we are at the beginning of the end of "Western Liberal Global Capitalism" or the beginning of the "End of Putinism" depends on what happens in Ukraine. Putin has to be shown early on that he can't win. Stepwise escalation of our help in synchronization with Putin's...

It's a morbid landscape made to order for the likes of ZH; filled with facts but a questionable conclusion. As one who believes clocks only rotate in one direction, I am inclined to think we are headed toward The End of Putinism rather than toward The End Of Western Liberal Global Capitalism...

That's correct so far as I know, however I was responding to this : "I just find it bewildering that Russia, the first country that sent a person to the moon..." This might be correct if there was a man in the package they crash landed on the moon, prior to the U.S. Apollo mission. But if...

Could it have been because Hillary Clinton was the focus of the over 3,000 Russian, counterfeit Facebook accounts. Just wondering.

Ha ha . They may have sent a man to the moon, but if they did he did not come back! Russia did crash a vehicle onto the moon surface before the Americans successfully landed and returned alive! Getting there is the easy part. Returning alive is the hard part. The Russian crash landing is in...

I understood that you did not understand the meaning of neutral. But you did not understand me.

There are many kinds of education. A liberal education makes it impossible to accept the Bible as literal. If someone appears to be educated, claims to be educated; yet accepts the Christian Bible as literal, they are not educated in he liberal sense.

As I was listening to this presentation, with of course the advantage of knowing what would happen 6+ years hence, I was struck by the depth with which this guy understood the politics of that region. . He may have been right on when he said, "In fact if you really want to wreck Russia what...

No. Independent does not mean "Neutral." Independence is a necessary but not sufficient criterion for neutrality. Neutrality can be general or specific to specific issues. States that are neutral do not, in general, form alliances and partnerships with other States. The NATO nations are not...

I see the offer made by Ukraine quite differently. A neutral Ukraine free from external Russian interference would be, were it implementable, a reasonable way out*. But how would Ukraine be guaranteed security? Russia can't be trusted so long as Putin, or any other Russian autocrat, is in...

Thank you so much for your posts and translations!

I think Mearsheimer was probably referring to Stephen F. Cohen the professor of Russian studies at NYU. (died ~2020).

It would be both smarter and easier to just get vaccinated. If you don't, you share with all the other unvaccinated people responsibility for these new variants.

Thank you so much for giving us details that are inaccessible to non Russian speakers. I hope that the senseless killing will soon stop. I have little faith that it will.

Clearly, Putin has given up on his original objective and has issued, whether spoken, written or neither, an ultimatum: either Surrender or I will lay waste to Kyiv as I did to Allepo, the Capital of Syria's Allepo governate, and before that to the Chechen Capital of Grozny. But that was then...

Indeed!

I came across this very interesting September 2015 address given by political scientist Mearsheimer, an expert on Russian and Chinese viewpoints which inform a wisdom different from Western European and United States conventional wisdom. I found listening to this talk to be extremely...

In terms of real debt, small but not insignificant. And how would you like to buy Russian bonds denominated in U.S. dollars now? And once Russia defaults on those foreign currency denominated bonds, do you think foreign investors will be happy to purchase more such bonds, other than at...