Comments on: Russia: what’s next?

By: Oil Crash

Oil Crash — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:35:38 +0000

Great stuff but I’m having a hard time viewing it on my blackberry. The layout isn’t correct (maybe you can fix this). I’ll have to try again when I get to the office.

By: Evalinsapple

Evalinsapple — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:15:04 +0000

So you see America as fallilng like Rome fell? You said it’s going from Republic to Empire…I see it as going to vice versa. China and other countries are investing in our Reserves, so you couldn’t possiably argue America is gaining the upper hand. Did I blink and miss something?

By: Evalinsapple

Evalinsapple — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:15:03 +0000

By: David Williams

David Williams — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:34:42 +0000

I see America making the same transition Rome made: i.e., from republic to empire. Declining civil liberties are one part of the larger problem. Obviously the United States of the MIRRORED HEAVENS is a democracy in name only. And those who rule it could give you a very reasoned explanation of why that’s necessary.

And yanno, there are times I don’t even disagree with them. It’s not clear to me democracies can conduct a sustained and coherent foreign policy. Only the worst kind of demagogues could have allowed themselves to be played so easily by Bin Laden and drawn into the MidEast quagmire that we’re still stuck in.

By: Evalinsapple

Evalinsapple — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:07:27 +0000

Right now I’m reading Mirrored Heavens. It’s mystifying, and I’m totally engaged. So far the alliance is between the U.S. and Eurasia. I don’t like America much either. I ranted on another website today about our declining civil liberties.

Yet the smartest still deserve assistance from the rest of the world. Have you heard of a book called the Ever Shrinking World? You were right: The Terminator Salvation movie came a bit late. We needed this sort of warning sooner.

Bush was all to eager to go to war with the Middle East. I can’t help but wonder now if China and Europe aren’t gloating that it was the U.S. economy that suffered the worst. We made their job of controlling the Middle East easier perhaps? Or just exacerbated a thousands of years universal problem.

I look forward to finishing your book. It’s nonstop action! That’s why I think we would compliement each other’s style well. I am more into the dialogue and character developement and need help with weapons information and blood and guts.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:33:41 +0000

Well, keep in mind that my future Eastern superpower, the Eurasian Coalition, is an alliance between Russia and China, who decide that the one thing they have in common is a hatred of the U.S.. . .

By: Evalinsapple

Evalinsapple — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:09:16 +0000

Here is the problem I have with this arguement: China is looking at alternative energy. The day after Putin put his foot down demanding his share of the money for Russian oil, China was boasting of reseraching alternative energy for vehicles.

If Obama’s plan was put in action we would be weaning ourselves from oil. Our main need of oil comes from space warfare. And what we rarely hear of in the news is what kind of alternative energy we have for spacecraft. It would seem that electric and solar power won’t work for spacecraft, but is there something else out that that will?

I like Russia as a country for power too. Any country smart enough to realize the pitfalls of both capitalism and communism and experiement with both has my vote. I just hate how its culture reeks of religion. China will continue in atheism. And while oil may be why the big whigs go to war, religion will win the ignorant masses.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:09:51 +0000

@Evanlinsapple – – I’m in this one for the long-haul. Peak oil will push those oil prices back up. . . . .

By: Evalinsapple

Evalinsapple — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:45:31 +0000

According to reports I read recently, Russia’s test-run weaponry is faulty. And Russian oil was only bringing in $72 a barrel. My sources are the Chinese Communist news.

So apparently Russia isn’t playing nice with China. It would seem they are being taught a lesson. The value of Russian money dropped recently as well.

But this is December and in May I may have guessed that Russia would be a rising power too. China’s very sneaky…

By: FDS

FDS — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:20:45 +0000

@Wired
actually your information about Russian demographics and HIV is wrong

Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse (about HIV)
http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2009/03/01/myth-of-russian-aids-apocalypse

Demography I – The Russian Cross Reversed?
http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2008/04/08/editorial-demography-i-the-russian-cross-reversed/