Tuesday, March 3, 2015

John Helmer — Boris Nemtsov – A Clue That He Didn’t Believe He Was At Risk Of Assassination, Or Of Catching His Death Of Cold


Delving more deeply into the facts of the Nemtsov murder.

Dances with Bears
John Helmer

Fort Russ

4 comments:

Ryan Harris said...
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Ryan Harris said...

This is the African century, most economic and population growth in the world in the next 75 years come from Africa. Asia, Europe and Russia basically shrink and struggle to remain relevant in a world that will be dominated by the Middle East and Africa where populations could very well be larger than Asia and Europe combined. Combined! The social changes storming across the region are reverberating and driving MOST of the conflicts globally. Incomes are rising, people are moving to cities, and the last continent is being developed. There is no where else on earth to grow. There is no demand boom that will carry on the world after this. This is huge, imminent changes to everything in the world, economically, financially, and monetarily are ill prepared and No one is talking about it.
So why are we busy studying the Russian borders? I'm completely mystified with the Russia intrigue. I've read the old 19th and 20th century ideas on the old world order but that is outdated stuff that seems quaint and silly in a globalized world.
Their proximity to China might have been interesting last century, as China rose and needed Russian resources, but Russia was too paranoid to sell to the Chinese and missed the opportunity. Now China's own population has peaked and the industrialization credit bubble is bursting and they are schlepping along trying to raise their productivity like everyone else, while the rest of Asia is progressing toward deep middle classes. I could see the relevance of Russia if they were engaging Africa and positioning themselves to be important in the future but they aren't, they are fighting with Europe. So what? More of the same old border stuff that has always occupied Europe and Russia.

Matt Franko said...

R,

Barbarian clashes make for good political theater????

Tom Hickey said...

Barbarian clashes

Like what the ROW and a lot of the US thinks thinks when they read of US police militarization and brutality, indefinite detention and suspension of civiil liberties and constitutional freedoms, and even domestic torture, not mention foreign wars of aggression, civilian deaths and casualties in those wars, support of dictatorial regimes, orchestrated regime change, and state torture — only they think of the empire doing it with the" barbarians" being them.