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You might find this interesting. The author doesn't buy into the "militarism caused the USSR to implode" theme so much. He has a book about it.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259

http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Example-American-Prospects/dp/0865716064

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by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 01:18:08 PM EST
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I love Orlov's stuff, quite entertaining, though if you look at slide 5, I'm not sure he doesn't by the fact that militarism did the SU in...

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by redstar on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 01:27:47 PM EST
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Ok, this is officially a phenomenon in search of a name:  

The routine act of linking to Dmitry Orlov's "Closing the Collapse Gap" slideshow on ET when the subject of the fall of the USSR arises.  

[Dmitry Orlov's Collapse Gap TechnologyTM]

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 01:48:24 PM EST
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a case of "Orlov's dog"?

(as in a reflexive response, that is)

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 03:43:48 PM EST
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Brilliant.  

Nice to "see" you here!

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 04:00:27 PM EST
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