What is Eurasianism?

What is Eurasianism? And why should you care about it? The short answer is that Eurasianism is the set of strategic questions and partial answers that have arisen since the center of global economic gravity shifted away from the Atlantic Ocean, but not toward the American-dominated Pacific.

FSB 'dissident' voice

Greetings nettimers after an absence of oh, two decades. I've been following a bit the last couple weeks of posts on Ukraine and related subjects and there's much to meditate on. And thanks to Ted Byfield for pointing me in the general direction of this discussion. I wanted to call your

Re: The War to come ...

"Fog of War," an essay by Wolfgang Streek: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/fog-of-war Thought it kind of pertinent to the thread Patrice Riemens started. Greetings, Wolfgang # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Disarming Chekhov’s Gun

https://pad.profolia.org/s/chekhovs_gun /The plan was to write a description for a series of lectures and conversations at Merz Akademie in upcoming semester, but it became a manifesto, I'd like to share with you. / Disarming Chekhov’s Gun The mantra passed down from generation to

stop South Korea’s shutdown of womenonweb.kr

International coalition to support filing of a suit to stop South Korea’s shutdown of womenonweb.kr On December 13, 2020, the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC) issued a ruling to block South Korea’s access to womenonweb.kr , Women on

Re: The War to come ... / dependency on Russian gas imports

> Some European countries, such as Germany, have left themselves little > choice but to buy Russian gas. Since this is a major point of current debates, here's a piece of info regarding the respective dependency on Russian gas imports by different European countries:

Re: The War to come ...

A missing element in most discussions here and elsewhere is a grasp of the material foundations that underpin The moving parts of geo-politics, particularly factors relating to the control of energy resources. A notable exception is Helen Thompson who's recently published Dis-order: Hard

Re: The War to come ...

why not cutting stuff short: the war is going brilliantly. 3 goals have alread been achieved 1) keep the Russians out 2) the Americans in 3) the Germans down. (Lord Ismay) Now, please: harshest sanctions ever, in order to also reach the last goal: 4) Fuck the EU! (Nuland) Mission almost

Re: The War to come ...

> On 11-Mar-2022, at 1:39 PM, Andreas Broeckmann > wrote: > > The impression that Prem's analysis might be marred by the conceptual > limitations of "imperiology" is underscored by the fact that his examples > (anecdotal, but no doubt valid examples) relate only to the US. Andreas, The

Re: The War to come ...

Folks, I want to add two thoughts to this discussion. They both concern the terminology of the "spheres of influence" and "imperialism". I'm not a political scientist and presume that there are elaborate debates about this elsewhere. What I notice in the current discussions is that this