gatesofvienna.blogspot.com - 2/17/2009
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“We need a paradigm shift in the West that would pave the way for a genuine Northern Alliance of Russia, Europe, and North America, as all three face similar existential threats in the decades ahead. In an uncertain and ever more brutal world, the Northerners may finally consider banding ...
volokh.com - 2/13/2009
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volokh.com —
The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Russia:
The financial crisis and especially the recent decline in
oil prices have hit the Russian economy hard, and have shaken previously strong popular support for Vladimir Putin's regime. In late January, ...
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The Volokh Conspiracy
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/24/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
Today Jackson Diehl picks up Charles Krauthammer's theme
of last Friday, which is that Barack Obama is
getting played by the Russians. This is a theme that goes back to John McCain's overreaction to the skirmish in Georgia last summer--and further, ...
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Ursa Minor
weeklystandard.com - 2/24/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
Joe Klein apparently understands the Russians better than
they understand themselves, and certainly better than anyone else
in the press corps. In his latest dispatch for Time , the self-styled bane of neoconservatives untangles the latest Jewish ...
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Historical Fiction
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On the Northern Alliance: A Response to Srdja Trifkovic
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
... Morose thoughts like this crowd in on my mind when I read magnificent panegyrics like Srdja Trifkovic’s recent appeal for the constitution of a “North”, i.e. a political alliance of the United States, Europe and Russia, to replace the current so-called “West” which, led by America, aims precisely at breaking what would otherwise be a natural link between the European nations on the European continent and those in the New World. The USA has done everything since the end of the Cold War to perpetuate the artificial fracture running across the continent, in pursuit of a ...
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