The 4 Reasons Why Some Westerners Support Russia
Ranging from the outright abettors to the lukewarm appeasers, people in the West promote favorable to Russia narratives for any one—but usually a combination—of the four following reasons… 1️⃣ Genuine concern over the prospect of global war and recession, combined with gross ignorance of history and geopolitics Somehow, despite even ...
Russian Mobilization: A Genuine Effort to Win the War or a Masked Domestic Genocide?
Putin may be delusional enough to really believe he can command a horde of under-trained, under-armed, under-dressed, and under-motivated boozers to storm Ukraine through the winter. But if not, his plan could be entirely different than it seems at first. If he’s also understood—like most—that win is impossible, he’d go ...
The Origins (and Essence) of Racism
Racism in the 21st century is as pressing a topic as ever. In order to understand its essence, discussions on racism often attempt to pinpoint its origins. They commonly trace these to the era of European expansionism and the slave trade in particular. Although this may seem a forthright conviction, ...
Russia and the Heritage of the Steppe
Russian warmongers have heavily adduced history in justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Not only have they constructed such a fantasy as a historic mission, but they even believe in its righteousness with unfaltering piety. Here I also intend to view the Russo-Ukrainian War through the glass of history — ...
Could Russia Collapse?
Putin and his disciples have set about to accomplish their life mission of restoring Russia as a great world power. Unlike most modern nations, they still gauge national greatness not by economic success and human progress, but by land area controlled. They make no secret of aspiring for nothing less ...
Terraform Mars? Or Martiform Us?
The idea of terraforming—i.e. artificially revamping an entire alien planet to recreate on it the optimal conditions for human habitation—isn't exactly new. The term was coined by science-fiction writer Jack Williamson in his 1942 short story Collision Orbit. The first scientific account of the concept was written by astronomer Carl ...
Le Pen and the Merging Extremes
Image VOX España on Wikimedia Commons If you are like me—a non-French citizen who only attends French politics on sporadic occasions—you probably know Marine Le Pen as what she’s notorious for: a Far-right extremist thinly disguising her nationalistic zealotry in a bid to occupy France’s presidential chair. You’d think she’s ...
YouTube Must Block War Games Ads Now
While watching the Ukraine news on the world’s major video-streaming platform earlier today, I refrained from skipping an ad for possibly the first time in my life. I saw the familiar, distressed face of Kyiv’s mayor pleading the world for help. I couldn’t just press the arrow. The dude might ...
Can you Play Backgammon?
Since you are reading this story, I assume you are more likely than not to have never played — or even heard of — the game of backgammon. I am not here intending to go into any encyclopedic details about its history or its mathematical analysis. I rather wish to communicate an observation I ...
A Short History Of Humanity Within A Geographical Context
In our age of free and wide distribution of information, it saddens me to observe how poor the average person's understanding of history is. A century and a half after Tolstoy offered the world his War and Peace masterpiece, many people still see human history as a sequence of heroic ...
The Good Old Days: thoughts on the nature of human pessimism
The good old days, les bons vieux jours, los buenos viejos tiempos, die guten alten Tage, старые добрые времена, οι παλιοί καλοί καιροί... all human languages I have intimacy with host standard and widely-employed expressions that associate the good with the old. Since one comes to this observation, it does ...
Africa: A Sole Superpower In Incubation?
Fervent debates are currently underway aiming to predict the allocation of power in the future geopolitical stage. Economic analysts and futurists forecast the imminent downfall of the US-dominated status quo and herald a new, multipolar world order, where states such as China, Russia, and India vie with America neck and ...