Testing Huntington in Ukraine | 69 comments (69 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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to accept Russia as the core state of Orthodoxy and a major regional power with legitimate interests in the security of its southern borders;

Who woulda thunk!?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 31st, 2014 at 08:29:04 AM EST
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Anyone who had ever read Huntington... :P

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Mon Mar 31st, 2014 at 08:53:11 AM EST
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Clearly nobody currently in charge in The West™ did.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 31st, 2014 at 09:52:09 AM EST
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Indeed. Nor did they read Keynes, Minsky, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Burke, Mill, Marx or any of the other important thinkers of the past. Or if they did, they promptly forgot any lessons those guys might have provided. Furthermore, it seems like nobody had even a sliver of common sense.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Mon Mar 31st, 2014 at 10:20:08 AM EST
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