Why does everything have to come in a neat package strictly in line with your demands? It had abundant natural resources (fertile land, coal) and an educated labor force. Ill listen again. Not only did she learn to speak and write Russian like a native, she was also fluent in French and corresponded with Voltaire and other French intellectuals (and of course German, her native language). Make snippets of Doan talking to create audio highlights to share with your friends or embed in related blog posts. ", It's been 16 years since I published my article ". The inevitable result was that most of the other Soviet republics were able to suck resources out of Russia, making them far more prosperous than Russia itself. In my conversations about the Ukraine with many Ukrainians over the years I discovered a shocking truth: unlike the Russians, the Ukrainians seem to have exactly zero ethnic solidarity. I believe this phenomen is the tip of an iceberg. On. It has a lilt to it that Russians find enchanting, making it well suited for folk songs. Even in Russia it took close to a decade to thwart the political power and influence of the oligarchy. 2007-present. I had a factory job in Adelaide that got shipped to China also known as Globalisation. I am curious if there is a real and tangible desire growing amidst the populations living in these regions to break relations with Kiev, in contrast to the prevailing sense of apathy that Ive read about over the last few years. The Saker: What about the Donbas republics? Official certs cost money and many people will do not use this option. Suddenlyor not so suddenly if you've been paying attentionwe seem to be living in a slightly different world. But lets be blunt: The Ukros are fighting until death; not victory. That's what they think. But mostly their Anti-Terrorist Operation, which is what they are calling this civil war, has turned into a propaganda initiative, with the mythical Russian invaders invoked at every turn to explain their otherwise inexplicable string of defeats. As a whole, or as its constituent nations, it is no longer capable of the exercise of its full sovereignty, having surrendered it to the US. Is incredible how far the financial system still runing, in south america Argentina and Brasil are runing on debt and the social violence is huge in brasiland well the next year I see economical and social conditions worst, and the political system continue runing. Let the masses eat cricket flour! It saddens me to think that so much has been lost or neglected over the years. Thanks to both Saker and Dmitry. In a significant number of precincts the turnout was exactly 100% instead of the usual 60% or so and counted votes from people who had moved, died or emigrated. . As this came to be recognized, Leon Trotskythe great exponent of world revolutionwas first exiled, then assassinated. Catherine took over the empire in a coup that she herself organized and led on horseback, from her sickly weakling husband, who had zero talent for governing anything. It was these younger men returning from their training who not only made but put paid to the summer cauldrons along the Russian borders and in essence destroyed the orcs chances of ever winning. And the drought seems only to be worsening. Listen to audio about Dmitry Orlov. I have a PURPOSE with such an exercise .. because I would in the best case hope for it to be POSITIVE in this deranged World of NEGATIVES Remember there are almost 1 Billion People in Europe , still being the richest Place on Earth , with Moneys and Capital including Populations Your beloved Russia desperately needs thats why some Pipelines are being buildt .. and an industrial Capacity ,a disciplined Workforce , Educational level as well as Infrastructiure second to none Do You remember how fast Germany rose out of the Ashes from 1933 it doesnt take so much , provided the basics are there.. and they definitely are there . http://www.cfr.org/world/rise-us-nuclear-primacy/p10147. Lack of textbooks in Ukrainian and lack of teachers qualified to teach in Ukrainian caused the quality of public education to plummet, giving rise to several generations of Ukrainians who dont really know Ukrainian, have had little formal instruction in Russian, and speak a sort of informal half-language. Unlike Russia where there was a great deal of residual folk knowledge, most Americans are dumber than rocks and without a rocks resilience. Hopefully, Putin will be able to find a worthy successor by this time and will be able to convince them that a war will be a suicide to USA/West. Orlov is thorough. The only difference between Poroshenko and Zelensky, or any of the other 30+ people who appeared on the ballot, is that Poroshenko has already stolen his billions while his contestants have not had a chance to do so yet, the only reason to run for president, or any elected office, in the Ukraine, being to put oneself in a position to do some major thieving. It is an understandable reason. It causes people to lose heart and leave. I was most horrified by his scenario of an engineered nuclear leak to damage Ukrainian agriculture in the service of a political goal! He is very smart and he knows what he writing about this is my opinion of the man. We need a threshold switch with two buttons, which, depending on what you want, turns the light on when either button is pushed (called an "or gate") or when both buttons are pushed (called an "and gate"). The Gilets Jaunes movement is one important but not the first reaction to the EU dictatorship and its forced upon us political, economical and cultural changes of which the LGBT Wurst thingemy is just one tiny example. The General breathed the clear, dry air of madness. But if I were a younger healthy man, Wellafter reading the entire piece, I must admit Im not impressed, The main global dynamic right now is the Chinese industrial and economic juggernauta geopolitically resurgent Russiaand the unraveling of the dollar dominated global financial order, The problem with the west is not so much cultural as it is economicthe west is a giant Ponzi scheme that must ultimately collapseas all financialized economies have collapsed since the beginning of moneyas any careful reader of Michael Hudson can tell you, One morning we will wake up and the machine will be out of gassimple as thatno moneyno funny, Thats why the rest of the world is moving toward a trading system that circumvents the dollar, or any kind of so-called reserve currencythe US itself is shoving this process forward by weaponizing trade and finance by means of sanctions gone wild, There does not need to be any kind of universal trading currency in the digital ageit is simply a matter of putting the settlement mechanisms in placeand more important, bypassing the HUMAN exchange networks now in placeie the old boys club through which dollar denominated global trade now flows, Once these processes mature, there will be no way of perpetuating the western financial Ponzi schemeit has crashed beforemost recently a decade agobut has been kept on life support by negative interest rates, plus further impoverishment of the marginal classbut once the reserve currency is gone, and with it the ability to print free moneythe machine is dead for good, At that point the west needs to earn its living the honest waythat may be a tough transition. They spent most of their time smoking cigarettes (at A$1 each) and drinking booze. As the Ukraines population dwindles, a natural sorting-out is taking place. This fake history lionizes Nazi collaborators and attempts to rub out entirely all memory of the Ukraines once very active role in the larger Russian world. Dmitry Orlov - Archive. Very much appreciated to have Dmitry Orlovs SitRep. Interview with Kevin Lynn of the Center for Populist Urban Politics, Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century, Brave Soldiers Petrov and Boshirov at the Arsenal in Vrbetice, Czechia. Orlov registered two assists and three hits in a 3-2 win over Edmonton on Monday. Cohen may be somewhat pro-Russian though actually he is just not being anti-Russian,instead of his being pro-Russian. or perhaps I should say, I am concerned, mostly for Russia. They are of a new breed of thoroughly professional career politicians with up-to-date managerial skills. No arm-twisting, bribery or other persuasion has been able to force a single sale. Russian and foreign investments could do the trick. This is a prime example of why this is one of the best independent sites on the web. Orlov, who was acquired from Washington on Thursday, was playing in . The US is not, as Mr Orliv would have us believe in his cute, facile ultra-nationalist view, a mere dumping ground for immigrants from shithole countries that has been laid to waste and ready to sink. Once Kiev is cut off from the Black Sea, its over for Kiev. Meanwhile, the Ukraine makes very little that the European Union or the rest of the world would want, and very little of it complies with EUs voluminous standards and regulations. Overall, the structure looks like a matryoshka doll. Join over 20k audio creators and earn $$. Luckily, the idea of Russia as a disposable staging ground for world communist revolution was never fully implemented. Chaos in the Ukraine, chaos in Venezuela, chaos everywhere the Empire is involved in any capacity and, of course, chaos inside the USA. In response, many people are starting to think that Armageddon might be nighan all-out nuclear exchange, followed by nuclear winter and human extinction. does not sound good in any way anywhere west of Russia so options: Some people would rather die than to be humiliated. If that doesnt work this wikihow article gives more detail: https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-AdBlock, Page likes, content likes, and shares = GROWTH, Join us! At what point in an escalation will the kind of attacks on American soil that Dmitry talks about come into play, and in the midst of a Russian induced societal collapse at home how sure are we that kill(ing) the bastards wont again become the whole idea. [3] 81, rode on the right side of a No. Do the Europeans deserve what is coming to them next? 00:00. As one told me just last week, come the downfall and collapse in Foggy Bottom, the very next day the petty criminals and drug dealers in their town will be gone, a combined effort of the local citizens and cops. Tomorrow is full dress event in Balaklava. It is becoming clear that Putin, although he is still very active in both domestic and international politics, is coasting toward retirement. It is terrible for morale to have rockets falling out of the sky and exploding sporadically among your civilian population while your military stands by helplessly. The entire pelvis also [5] Make snippets of Dmitry talking to create audio highlights to share with your friends or embed in related blog posts. Perhaps the people of the US might rediscover the power of sincere prayer? These provisions on what rights Donbass should have were formulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally, among others, but her ward has got out of hand. Thanks for that interview on 5G radiationwith a bona fide top expert Dr. Trowerwe are seeing already This essay is the work of a fantasist. The US capacity to meddle overseas will wither, after all how well can a submarine filled with drag queens and single mothers operate? What one is more I couldnt stop reading it even though my two kids were jumping all over me nonstop. The problem of empires is that they imagine themselves to be so powerful that they can allow themselves small miscalculations and errors. These multinational corporations gotta keep the profits up for their shareholders. This will cause the rest of the cowardly brain dead herd to soil themselves as they run away. Get the latest news and updates on Dmitry Orlov from The Athletic. Rockets are important. Russia has been resisting calls to grant official recognition to these two Peoples Republics or to provide overt military support (weapons and volunteers do filter through from the Russian side without any hindrance, although the flow of volunteers has been slowing down of late). OK. He is an engineer who has contributed to fields as diverse as high-energy Physics and Internet Security, as well as a leading Peak Oil theorist. What a brilliant piece of work, an essay, in essence. This is a typical kind of meme that gets spread through repetition and is used to explainn a lot of things that actually require other explanations. They have to win, and they have to win without any help from the Russian military, which can squash the Ukrainian military like a bug, but what would be the point of doing that? In true storybook fashion, their points came on the same goal. Saker we were hungry for this information about the Ukraine, and I can tell you were also. One effect of that will be that all the East European guest workers working in the west will be forced to head back home. But the world has since caught up with me. Will there be a civil war in the US, like in the 1861-1865 period ? It isnt fiscally or monetarily healthy. Wow. I even provided a worksheet which readers could use to track their progress in freeing themselves from the technosphere's clutches. The people who make these threats are assuming, it would seem, that the power of the USA, its economic, military and political power, is such that this isn't serious, that they will survive this. The US has been kicking the financial can down the road for a long time. Instead, I'll just issue an update. ;). And the fourth time-traveling GRU agents who will have had been crucified together They allready proven to be completely nuts, irrational and unable of any rational thinking. After the Soviet collapse and Ukrainian independence there followed a campaign to de-Sovietize and de-Russianize the Ukraine, deprecating this common historical legacy and replacing it with a synthetic Ukrainian identity based on a falsified history that is alien to most of the population. Washington Capitals | Dmitry Orlov | Orlov scored a goal, dished an assist, logged two hits and went plus-2 in Monday's 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders. We no longer have that safety valve with the current Neocon barkers. Only the ancient Greeks had something that came close and that only for a short while. Its possible this long-remote karma of spiritual longing might still hold some embers. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. Never again, he says, will Russia suffer the losses of the last war by fighting on its own territory. Dmitry Orlov: I think that the American empire is very much over already, but it hasnt been put to any sort of serious stress test yet, and so nobody realizes that this is the case. In that case theres not much of a place for logic, is there? The word ukraina is simply an archaic form of the Russian word okraina (outskirts, border land). 3. Meanwhile, a thorough cleaning out of the ranks has taken place, with some high-ranking officials doing jail time for corruption. I lived in Aussie for 9 years, from 1985 to 1994. Is it any wonder that all true Western racist supremacists so hate Mao? You see, over the past 30 years most Ukrainians have been content to sit around drinking beer and watching television as their country got looted. Ukrainians are already the third most populous ethnic group within Russia (after Russians and Tatars) and Russia has been able to absorb the Ukrainians that have been fleeing to Russia in recent years. I think that you are making an unwarranted assumption: that Russians hate the USA or the West. Saker and Dimitri Orlov, thank you both for a real insight on some global happenings. Any Russian attack even with conventional weapons on US mainland infrastructure would be running the extreme risk of a nuclear strike in retaliation. The Damascus explosion blew off the 780 ton silo door and launched the second stage plus its 9 megaton warhead 1000 feet in the air. Russia has been around longer and has had successful comebacks under way more destruction. Of course, it will all be made to look highly democratic for the sake of appearances. Just bringing Crimea up to Russias contemporary standards after 30 years of Ukrainian neglect has turned out to be a monumental task; as far as doing that for the rest of the Ukraineforget it! The Hermitage collection started out as her personal collection. English) the extraordinary Renaissance art collections that are held in the Hermitage and other museums. I also wonder if Shorten still reports to the U.S Embassy? More from Dmitry Orlov on The American Collapse https://cluborlov.blogspot.com "In the ongoing US presidential election, an almost-dead candidate and his charming assistant have been voted for by an army of the undead: voters that have mailed in their ballots in spite of being deceased. By the time the USSR collapsed, the Ukraine was its most highly developed and possibly its richest part, and some people expected that, having thrown off the Soviet yoke, its future would be too bright to look at without goggles.