As the United States hastily withdraws from Afghanistan, warning its citizens there to flee immediately, and washes its hands of the Central Asian country, the Taliban are running riot. In the space of weeks, the militant group has seized dozens of districts and at least 10 cities. US officials have warned …
Read More »It beggars belief that a trans YouTube star, arrested for allegedly raping his own mother, will be jailed with women inmates
I started writing about the case of Chris Chan earlier this week, when I read about the transgender YouTuber’s arrest. The vlogger and artist, who goes by the name Christine Weston Chandler, was arrested after a leaked phone call revealed her allegedly admitting to sexually abusing her elderly mother. Chandler …
Read More »Biden’s belief that Putin is conspiring with China to take down democracy betrays his complete ignorance of Russia’s own politics
Not only is lumping the two states together a mistake, so too is the act of contrasting the two ideologies. The language of political philosophy is, sadly, unsuited to the task of describing political realities. We bandy about words such as “liberalism,” “socialism,” and “fascism,” as if we know what they …
Read More »Western belief that globalization can only move in tandem with ITS ideology is at the core of current confrontation with China
In 1992, Japanese-American scholar Francis Fukuyama authored a book titled ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ which fabled liberal democracy as the final, inevitable and ultimate stage of man’s evolutionary development. The timing was no coincidence, only a year earlier, the Soviet Union collapsed and brought an end …
Read More »Groundless belief
What is striking in the Russian bureaucracy is based on nothing enthusiasm and a groundless belief in their competence. We wanted to create a “Silicon valley”, blew a bunch of money into “innovation”, the FUND and SKOLKOVO — the output of “zilch”. No IPO money back to investors and create …
Read More »Belief BQ: Russia’s first Muslim smartphone
All available in Russia, smartphones are divided into many different categories they can be sorted by screen size, memory, operating system, cost and so on. But still never the means of communication are not ranked in religion, followed by their owners, and the company BQ has created a precedent by …
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