A State That Spends Under 5% of GDP on a Big War Is Not Serious About Said War "And expectations have to be adjusted accordingly" Anatoly Karlin 11 Nov 22 1169 12
Time for Russia to “Close the Sky”, End US Sattelites "A few truckloads of gravel" will do it Anatoly Karlin 14 Oct 22 2404 9
Russia Is Launching a 200-Million East Slavic Superpower, Probably This Month Gathering of the Russian lands — for the second time Anatoly Karlin 16 Feb 22 3464 12
China’s ‘Far East’ Is Emptying Out Faster Than Russia’s So guess there'll be no yellow invasion of Siberia the neocons were hoping for Anatoly Karlin 12 May 21 1999 2
US De Facto Shuts Down Travel With Russia No more non-immigrant visas for Russians anywhere in Russia Anatoly Karlin 3 May 21 1230 4
The Russian-Ukrainian War Postponed for When an Even Stronger China Opens the Taiwanese Question "The US has steadfastly positioned itself as an enemy of Russia...There will be no end of pressure on any Russian regime to settle scores with the US when it runs into difficulties in the Pacific" Anatoly Karlin 23 Apr 21 2951 10
If Shooting Starts It’s Likely Russia Wont Settle for Status Quo in Donbass It'll get blame and sanctions anyway, so might as well do something to deserve it — besides China's rise changes the chessboard since 2014 Anatoly Karlin 20 Apr 21 2081 10
Northern Sea Route Still at Only 0.1% of Suez Traffic, the Growth Will Be Astronomical Humble beginnings but a lot less humble than they were just a few years ago Anatoly Karlin 29 Mar 21 1611 3
Donbass War Ukraine’s Military Buildup Against Rebel Donbass Continues, Summer War Feared Elected by voters who prioritized economy and corruption Zelensky has instead (predictably) run to the right and is increasingly focusing on conflict Anatoly Karlin 28 Mar 21 2202 9
Sarah Palin Admits Was Wrong on Assange, Calls for His Freedom It takes massive character to admit wrong — or to take positions verboten among the imperial elites Anatoly Karlin 20 Dec 20 443 6
Chechen ‘Refugee’ Terrorizes France, Kadyrov Plays Foreign Policy, Earns Kremlin’s Rebuke "Muslim public figures...rushed to condemn and castigate France...while declining to extend a similar courtesy to the physical victims of their coreligionists" Anatoly Karlin 4 Nov 20 621 0
Our Benevolent Empire Washington Is Using Google Censorship to Push Its Editorial Line on the Russian Public Talk about interfering in someone's democracy Anatoly Karlin 29 Jul 20 253 1
Massive Cringe as Apparatchiks Stuff the Ballot for Putin’s Constitutional Amendments That Would Have Passed Anyway Would have won with a comfortable 65% anyway, but this is the suck ups' idea of marking themselves out as hyper-loyal to the President-monarch Anatoly Karlin 4 Jul 20 835 0
Russia Makes It Super Easy for Ukrainians (and Some Others) to Get Russian Citizenship Can apply almost as soon as they're over the border without needing to give up the Ukrainian one Anatoly Karlin 25 Apr 20 940 7
Ukraine’s Population Has Dropped From 52 Million Under the Soviets to 37 Million Today Just 5 million of that is due to the loss of Crimea and Donbass Anatoly Karlin 27 Jan 20 1098 3
Putin Proposes for Constitution to Bar Russians Who Have Residency Permits Abroad From Becoming Top Officials Bad news for oligarchs and Atlanticists Anatoly Karlin 16 Jan 20 2236 15
History East Asian “Tigers” Democratized to Keep the US Invested in Their Fate After Washington Made Nice With Red China The switch to a multi-party system in South Korea and Taiwan is owed to US's opening to Beijing and the latter's embrace of the markets Anatoly Karlin 3 Nov 19 780 2
History The Bolshevik War on Russia’s Best and Brightest Robbed It of 80 Percent of Its Cognitive Elites 80 percent of its people in high technologies of the time were killed, repressed or exiled to its enemies Anatoly Karlin 1 Aug 19 1416 4
What If Russia Stood by in 2014 as Crimea Burned? For those who think it was a strategic mistake my Moscow, let's run a counter-factual Anatoly Karlin 22 Mar 19 694 3
Chinese Navy Now at 40 Percent of the American One by Tonnage, Poised to Overtake It by Late 2020s There’s not much time left for US naval dominance in the West Pacific Anatoly Karlin 17 Mar 19 870 0
