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Category Archives: Russia
The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin
From Politico: Chabad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell gas station and a strip mall. The center is an unexceptional building on an unexceptional … Continue reading
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‘Meet the Moscow Mouthpiece Married to a Racist Alt-Right Boss’
Comment: “I noticed they managed to shoe-horn in a photo of Richard Spencer Sieg Heiling. Except that he wasn’t; he was waving at jeering protesters in the back of the room. Not that I expected The Daily Beast to be … Continue reading
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An Excerpt From Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s book ‘Two Hundred Years Together’ (Russian-Jewish History)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn writes: The Jewish break from the Soviet communism was doubtless a movement of historical significance. In the 1920s and 1930s, the fusion of the Soviet Jewry and Bolshevism seemed permanent. Then suddenly, they diverge? What a joy! Of … Continue reading
Who Is the USA’s Chief Long-term Strategic Rival: Russia or China?
Steve Sailer writes: The rude welcome Obama received in China suggests that a long-term great power rivalry between the United States and China is inevitable. This doesn’t have to be disastrous, but it does need to be treated seriously. It … Continue reading
JPOST: Russian president says predominantly Jewish Soviet government was guided by false ideological considerations
Jerusalem Post: Russian President Vladimir Putin said that at least 80 percent of the members of the first Soviet government were Jewish. “I thought about something just now: The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet … Continue reading
Russia Vs USA
Comments: * The correct question is whether Russia would ring the U.S. with military bases if it could. The answer is, of course, yes. There’s nothing we’re doing to Russia that Russia wouldn’t do to us given the chance. Those … Continue reading
Disinformation About 2008 Georgia-Russia War
Steve Sailer writes: Would the New York Times blithely report “preventing Arab nationalism is a centerpiece of the foreign policy of Israel, which invaded Egypt and Syria in October 1973 largely to forestall that possibility”? Or would the editors reject … Continue reading
A Brief Survey of the Various Foreigners, Their Chief Characteristics, Customs, and Manners by P.J. O’Rourke
P.J. O’Rourke writes in National Lampoon in 1977: AFRICANS Racial Characteristics: Probably not people at all. Probably some kind of monkey. They eat each other and worship bundles of sticks and mud. You can never remember the names of their … Continue reading
‘I can’t believe foreign countries are happy about Trump not wanting to start a war with them. This is an outrage.’
I guess Trump is irresponsible because he does not want to go to war with Russia. Politico: Why Russia Is Rejoicing Over Trump Dropping threatening language from the GOP platform is just the sort of bonus Moscow expects from its … Continue reading
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Review: ‘The Invention of Russia’ Examines the Post-Soviet Path
New York Times: Or this about the powerful media magnates who arose under Mr. Yeltsin: “They dressed like a Westernized elite, spoke like one, sent their children to Western schools, but they lacked the most important attribute of an elite … Continue reading