Russia

This is what the old Iron Curtain looked like “We Are Living Behind a Double Iron Curtain”: A Soviet Childhood, Propaganda, and the American Dream A candid conversation about growing up in the USSR, the rewriting of history, and why the West might be more isolated today than Russia was during the Cold War. During the tour, I spoke with Gherman, born during Soviet times. After the Soviet Union ended, he lived in Italy for 20 years, and England for 2 before returning to Crimea, Russia. Eric (Interviewer): So, German is the guide for this tour. Who remembers Caribbean conflict. …

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Trump Real Estate Geopolitics Trump Real Estate Geopolitics is the core component of how he conducts diplomacy. https://ericarnow.substack.com/p/real-estate-geopolitics-and-the-ukraine?r=1iig8   My central argument is that American foreign policy, particularly regarding critical negotiations like those between the United States and Russia, is increasingly being conducted not by seasoned diplomats, but by real estate speculators. This isn’t just a recent phenomenon; it’s a thread that runs through American history. The Curious Case of Real Estate Diplomacy It’s astonishing to consider that negotiations between two global powers like the United States and Russia have been spearheaded by individuals primarily known for their real estate …

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The Roots of the Ukraine War: It All Started in the Minds of Western Leaders The Ukraine conflict, and the Ukraine war origins, often portrayed as a response to Russian aggression, has deeper roots in the ideological and psychological framework of Western leadership. This essay explores how historical ambitions, economic missteps, and a refusal to acknowledge self-inflicted wounds have driven the crisis, aligning with Oswald Spengler’s 1921 prophecy in The Decline of the West, where he foresaw the West’s decline despite its apparent power. Early Symptoms: Energy Disputes and Economic Self-Sabotage Poland’s Energy Conflicts with Russia Tensions over energy resources …

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Introduction: A Comment on Larry Johnson’s article about ‘the sad state of US based Russian Scholars I am posting a comment I made on Larry Johnson’s excellent website, www.sonar21.com, the sad state of US based Russian scholars. See it further down in this article. Academic Russophobes are a whole segment of the Academic and Think Tank Media Complex. https://sonar21.com/the-sad-state-of-us-based-russian-scholars/   Robert Conquest: Historian or MI6 Propagandist? Coincidentally one of the greatest apparent students of the Goebbels school of black propaganda, Robert Conquest, an MI6 pervayor of lies and propaganda asset pretending to be an historian, who died in 2015, was …

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This blog post from November 2013 largely predicted the tragedy of Ukraine. The author shut down the website, due to pressure from ‘somebody’.   Agency: Who’s Responsible? It’s kind of humorous how everybody familiar with the Ukraine conflict is asking who is responsible for an attack on Russia’s nuclear capable aircraft, an act that could easily precipitate a nuclear war. So I want to talk about Agency. Simply put, agency is the idea of the capacity to act. When I was first starting off as an insurance agent, we had to learn about ‘agency’. I was acting as an Agent …

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  It looks like the American version of The Grand Chessboard is not going as planned. Rather than Russia being defeated and dismembered, it’s winning, to the chagrin of the West. And they don’t know what to do.   The Grand Chessboard and The Real Objective of the Ukraine War   The whole objective of the Ukraine war has been to weaken Russia, sow division within Russian society, and eventually create regime change. The West’s whole history and its strength has been its ability to infiltrate and invade countries, to steal their resources and enslave their people, if not in …

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