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gergeleh's avatar

I’d love to hear an explanation of what the word ‘Soviet’ means now to Russians, as it is used by Bohemicus here.

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Jerome's avatar

So Europe benefits from a hypothetical Chinese&russian-American war how? Europe wouldn’t be drawn into the war on americas side? They’d just sit it out and challenge China afterwards? Not really following the logic on that

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Muadib's avatar

Agree. Though the author's analysis/perspective is extremely interesting and original. Plus, also think that the author still has a very eurocentric view of the world i.e America and Europe as the real contenders? More likely that in a few decades, the only real contenders would be China and India.

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Backspin's avatar

This is the kind of stuff westerners need to read. Is there any way you could interview this guy?

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KellyAnn's avatar

This is brilliant. Well done.

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Corsablis's avatar

Europe playing America against Russia and China is a powerful take I hadn't heard before. I don't really believe it, but I would be interested in more translations of Bohemicus.

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Random  Russian's avatar

Thanks for Bohemicus. He's brilliant and need more translations!

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That chick's avatar

During the lead up to the 2014 coup, Victoria Nuland was recorded in a conversation about who they would install as their "puppet" following the coup. She infamously said "F*** the European Union.".

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Assad_Aswad's avatar

Very imaginative, a lot wishful thinking in it. Confusing Europe as one entity, while it is deeply divided not to mention the western and eastern Europe. The hard facts doesn't fit well in the proposed scenario. What is absolutely sure, is that the current events doesn't serve well Europe and US. Watching neutral European countries jumping desperately to join NATO, doesn't sit as well with the proposed theory. Europe (western) is old, weak militarily and economically and eastern Europe is a parasite and wannabe Americans.

The western European countries missed their chances of cutting loose from US dominance when they accepted to go on with the sanctions insanity. The NordStream 2 would have been Europe tickets out of the US sphere of dominance. Now they are even more dependent on the US.

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Anders W.'s avatar

Subscribed!

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Agnieszka's avatar

I agree with the author that this is a civil war, which US, unfortunately helped to flare up. Once this is over, and Western Ukraine will emerge, Im afraid that their identify will be predicated on not being Russian. Hitching a wagon to Americans was a mistake.

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jjjjj's avatar

Didn't bother to read.

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'america' mentioned 40 times

'ukraine' less than 20.

My guess is there are 1 or 2 nazi references in this, along with the standard puppet talk.

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Tatiana Mayhew's avatar

For those who doesn't know, Bandera is not a myth.

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Okey obinna's avatar

You said it all. Bravo

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L'Assistant's avatar

Maybe "ace in the hole" for the last idiom? Slightly less literal but much more common in English :)

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