Russia’s ambitions in Asia will require “the territorial disintegration, splintering and the political and administrative partition of the [Chinese] state,” Dugin writes.
Russia’s natural partner in the Far East, according to him, is Japan.
According to Dugin's "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia", published in 1997, the wrong alliance won World War II.
Dugin argues that if only Hitler had not invaded Russia, Britain could have been broken.
The US would have remained at home, isolationist and divided, and Japan would have ruled the former China as Russia’s junior partner.
Delusional? I'm not a historian but delusions become crucial when embraced by tyrants.
Dugin always argues from a Russian point of view. Like:
"Before modernity ruined everything, a spiritually motivated Russian people promised to unite Europe and Asia into one great empire, appropriately ruled by ethnic Russians."
I must note that Dugin met Steve Bannon in Rome in 2018, and a quite predictable schism emerged in that meeting: the former believing that Western liberalism is the great enemy, and the latter instead finding that in China.
For Dugin, the source of modernity is the US.
For Steve Bannon - China. Bannon seriously believes that China is the actual engine of globalization, cosmopolitanism, borderlessness, and that you have this little upper crust in the US that interacts with it.
All of these people are far-right gurus:
🇧🇷 Olavo de Carvalho
🇭🇺 Tibor Baranyi
🇷🇺 Alexander Dugin
🇺🇸 Steve Bannon
Traditionalists? More like fascist and nazi occultists, which often flirted with far right.
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A lot of people are talking about safe places if World War III starts.
Even the safest locations would suffer from a nuclear winter.
Most cities would be powerless against being reduced to ruins.
Even those in the most remote corners of the Earth could be impacted by nuclear warfare.
The capitals and major cities of the major nuclear-armed states would be the first to go.
Nuclear war means the smoke from burning cities could rise into the upper atmosphere, darken the sun, and create a nuclear winter that could interfere with agriculture globally.
Republic Council of the Russian Community in Azerbaijan decided to support Moscow's pro-war stance on Ukraine.
The move angered a lot of Azerbaijani Russians, which criticized the organisation for speaking on behalf of the Russian community in Azerbaijan.
Most Azerbaijani Russians on social media stated they are supporting peace in Ukraine and expressed their solidarity with Azerbaijan and Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
I'm going to translate some of the comments, written by Azerbaijani Russians.
"As a Russian woman from Baku, I'm categorically against this document. Part of the territory of our country [Azerbaijan] has been occupied for 30 years, we cannot support any military aggression against Ukraine." I.K.
Azerbaijan's former President Ayaz Mutallibov died in Baku.
Ayaz Mutallibov in a nutshell:
* Born on May 12, 1938, in Baku to the family of a physician and later World War II veteran
* In 1964, became the director of the Baku Refrigerator Factory
* In 1979, became Minister of Light Industry of Azerbaijan SSR
* In 1989, appointed as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR
* In 1990, while in Moscow, appointed as the First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party. Later that year he became the first President of Azerbaijan SSR
Oleksii Arestovych, an adviser to Zelenskiy, echoed the Gen Kyrylo Budanov's warning about "Korean scenario" for Ukraine.
“Within a week or two, Russia will withdraw troops from Kyiv and Kharkiv regions and send them to Donbas”, he said.
Arestovych added:
“They [Russia] now have three tasks: to surround our troops in Donbas, to completely occupy Mariupol and the south. If they lose Kherson, their entire Mariupol occupation will collapse. And that’s all. There will be no capture of Kyiv, Kharkiv or Odesa.”
General Budanov said he did not believe Mariupol would fall soon and that Russian forces would face guerrilla tactics even if it did manage to defeat the experienced Azov battalion in the flattened city.
It's been almost two months since I've created a photography thread.
So I would like to pay my tribute to Dirck Halstead. Dirck was a pioneering photojournalist, best known for his work for Time magazine, UPI, and Life magazine.
Halstead covered significant world events throughout the late 20th century including the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon in 1975, five presidential administrations, President Richard Nixon’s trip to China, and the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
Reflecting on his career, Halstead said, "I have never thought of myself as a great photographer. That’s beside the point. What I am is a storyteller. I have always felt that [my career] isn’t about what I saw. It is about how I fulfilled my responsibility to reporting history."
Yes, Australia is really quite boring, with miles of white beaches, crystal clear blue oceans, and sand so clean it squeaks in some parts of Australia.
The Great Barrier Reef is so boring that a lot of people wants to go there.
And don't get me started on the Kakadu National Park in northern Australia which got millions of years old pristine landscapes and aboriginal rock paintings in caves.
Australia is more than beers and kangaroos.
It is a big country that needs time to be explored, appreciated and enjoyed.