Once everything becomes a game of posture and affect, will it ever be possible to articulate a coherent politics again?It's been this way for a long, long time. The only coherent politics remains anarchism, because it's the only option. You live in it now, get over it. Being honest about it makes things better, not worse.
the lessons from the secret history of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan have profound implications on our understanding of how the modern Russian Federation is run, and, for the Americans and British especially, it might provide an explanation for the otherwise baffling Washington decision to repeat the same experiment in Afghanistan that the USSR did only a few decades prior.
To be fair, I didnβt expect the Kremlin to be behind Pool though. But I should have. The Kremlin exclusively does business with grifters, charlatans, hoaxers, criminals and ethnic criminals. Without exception. ... They supported Bernie Sanders. Anyone who has worked at RT or who remembers their coverage of the 2015-16 primaries and elections will confirm it to you. Hell, they offered me a job back then shilling for Bernie and I told them to shove it (I supported MAGA at the time). The reason why they supported Bernie is because heβs an old Trotskyist who used to literally support the USSR. Thatβs probably where they picked up the Pool contact because he was an Obama-supporting Occupy Wall Street activist at the time and RT was having a field day with that whole street circus, which ended up birthing the SJW movement as we know it, by the way.
Morena and its coalition partners have approved a key exception to the proposed rules meaning that open-pit mining and fracking can be authorised βin rare cases determined by the federal Executiveβ¦ due to their strategic importance for national development.βSo yeah, force sale of everything and then reissue permits. I'm sure DF will sink in their fangs as part of the deal.
There is literally nothing short of a nuclear first strike carried out by NATO that would get Moscow to grow anything resembling a spine. Theyβre cool with the invasion of Russia in Moscow, but it will take them some time to figure out how to spin this development in the media.