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Category Archives: Lee’s Page
Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash
I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described “oilfield trash” who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, commerical-adventurer, drinking, drunk, energy, FPSO, grandchildren, Gulf of Guniea, gunboats, incompetent, international watrers, Lagos, Nigeria, offshore exploration, oil, oil exploration, oil reserves, oilfield trash, piracy, pirates, quasi-war, West Africa
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Oral Nonsex
I recall it being reported at the height of the sordid and tedious Monica Lewinsky scandal, that Bill Clinton personally felt he had not violated his wedding vows because in his view, receiving fellatio did not constitute adultery. Evidently Clinton … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lee's Page
Tagged 2003, adultery, analingus, Bible, Bill Clinton, blowjob, colorado, conversation, cunnilingus, fellatio, irreligious, language, marriage, Monica Lewinsky, Montrose High School, morality, New Hampshire Supreme Court, oral nonsex, oral sex, scandal, scripture, sex, social conservatism, students, thesaurus, wedding, youth culture
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Armies of the Obsolete
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen
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Against Galt
Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Libertarianism
Tagged America, Aristotle, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, Conservatism, constitutional order, Culture, democracy, epiphany, Eric Hoffer, fascism, futurism, Galt's Gulch, general will, government, group identity, guardians, ideology, individualism, John Galt, justice, liberal democracy, liberalism, Libertarianism, literary style, literature, materialism, Objectivism, Plato, popular democracy, radicalism, Randianism, revolt, revolution, Rousseau, salvation, sectionalism, seperatism, skepticism, socia, social justice, strike, war, William F Buckley
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A Man Without a Season
Stéphane Dion, leader of the defeated Canadian Liberal Party, has rather ignominiously resigned his position today. Thereby he becomes the first Liberal Party leader since the 19th century to have never become Prime Minister of Canada. Given his dismal political … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Canada, Canadian politics, Dion, Domestic Politics, election, English, language, Liberal Party, National Post, Stéphane Dion
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The Folly of Heroes
What a day for indignity. Just when I’d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always … Continue reading
John McCain and Sarah Palin: Fairfax Gallery
Ron Hilton caught some great shots at the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Virginia. He was gracious enough to let us post them here for you:
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged campaign, election, Fairfax, Fred Thompson, gallery, images, John McCain, McCain, Palin, palinporn, Photography, photos, pics, pictures, rally, Ron Hilton, Sarah Palin, speech, Todd Palin, Virginia
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A Clear Blue Sky
(NASA) Today is the 11th. The unwelcome anniversary. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard. I was awoken by a phone call on the day. “The country’s under attack!” the phone said. You wake up rather fast when that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, air traffic, anniversary, contrails, sky, United States, war, WTC
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Buying Tymoshenko
As the European Union commendably attempts to pull Ukraine closer into the safety of the West, Russia has reportedly earmarked $1 billion to fund suddenly pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, against heroically pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko in the 2010 presidential … Continue reading
Ruining Ramadan in Egypt
Ramadan always means new soap operas in the Arab world. I learned today it also means not even thinking about masturbation. A small thing to you perhaps, but in a repressive sexual society where the curves of the female figure … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Religion and theology, Travel
Tagged Arab, Cairo, casino, cigarettes, Egypt, fear, freedom, God, haram, Helwan, infidel, islam, masturbation, Muslim, North Africa, raincoats, Ramadan, religion, roulette, sacrifice, sex, sin, smoke, soap operas, tobacco, Travel, Tunisia, western
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Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative
(photo: Ian Murchison | website) The nationalization of Fannie & Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the “free market.” However, Sunder Katwala at … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged analysis, Anglo-Saxon, Bush Administration, business, capitalism, Conservatism, democracy, Environment, Fannie Mae, Francis Fukuyama, Freddie Mac, free market, Fukuyama, left, liberalism, markets, mixed economy, morality, mortgage crisis, NextLeft, orthodoxy, private sector, Reagan, right, social democracy, Sunder Katwala, Thatcher, Third Way
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A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden
(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi’s opera Nabucco –the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance– the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, administration, Aliyev, Armenia, Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani, Azeris, Babylon, Baku, black garden, Boris Yeltsin, Clinton, crypto-fascism, Denena, Dick Cheney, Dmitry Medvedev, Elmar Mammadyarov, energy, ethnic, Europe, Henry Kissinger, hostage, imports, Iran, Jerusalem, Karabakh, King, Kommersant, Medvedev, miltiarism, Moscow, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, Nagorno-Karabakh, natural gas, opera, OSI, Persia, petrocracy, Rahim Alizadeh, Russia, security, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, United States, Verdi, Washington, Yagub Eyubov
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Immunizing Sarah Palin
(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, 1980, character attacks, Christopher Hitchens, criticism, election, email, Gossip, Hitchens, left, Nixon, nuclear war, Palin, presidency, racism, Republican, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, rumors, Sarah Palin, Slate, teflon, Tom LeGro, Walter Dean Burnham
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Medvedev’s Caribbean Dream
A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia: “I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.” (AFP) We’d … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged 1898, Caribbean, Cold War, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, Haiti, hegemony, human rights, humanitarian, hurricane, Medvedev, Moscow, Putin, Putinism, resistance, Russia, United States, Venezuela
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Declinism as Exceptionalism
Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged American exceptionalism, Declinism, Financial Times, Francis Fukuyama, Georgia, imperialism, Iraq, Kosovo, machtpolitik, power politics, Russia, United States, war
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China and Provincial Secessionism
Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, China, expansionism, foreign policy, Georgia, ideology, Mao, prc, Russian foreign ministry, SCO, secession, secessionism, separatism, Seth Weinberger, South Ossetia, taiwan, tibet, United States
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Black Signs at the Exhibition
The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it’s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard, Ballardian, competitive advantage, complex interdependence, credit, Domestic Politics, English, Georgia, IMF, industry, JG Ballard, Johanna Neuman, markets, Media, mercantile, military, power, productivity, Russia, sensationalism, SOS Georgia, Wall Street Journal, West
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The Scent of the Scene
I don’t think I’ve bought a bottle of air-freshener in at least five years. With my parents unexpectedly in town, I felt the need to conceal cigar smoke and the general bachelorness of the joint. So I bought a bottle … Continue reading
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Tagged air freshner, cigars, dance club, ecstasy, Febreze, nightclub, Paul Oakenfold, rocky springs & cool, scent, smell, smoke
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To be the King of Libya
When Muammar al-Gaddafi was a student at the Benghazi Academy in the 1960s, he swore to destroy monarchism in Libya. In September 1969, when his military coup finally overthrew the monarchy, Libya was proclaimed a republic by Gaddafi. Shortly thereafter, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Arab Nationalism, Benghazi, Benghazi Military Academy, crown prince, dynasty, Egypt, exiles, Gaddafi, Hasan as-Senussi, Idris, Idris I, islamic socialism, Italy, King, Libya, marxism, monarch, monarchism, monarchy, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Muhammad as-Senussi, prince, rapprochement, republic, republicanism, revolution, scepter, Seif al Islam, Tripoli, vagrant
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Welcoming the World to Wasilla
photo: Michael Levesque It seems the international media is crawling all over the tiny town Sarah Palin began her political career in. Being fond of leaders for whom membership in the general public is a recent memory, I think it’s … Continue reading
An Unacceptable Acceptance
Well, here is an embarrassing prospect. It seems the Republican leadership may boycott the Republican convention in Minnesota, for fear of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The top elected Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was already boycotting. But now … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, boycott, convention, democratic, Democrats, Denver, Gulf of Mexico, hurricane, McCain, minnesota, Republican, RNCC
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Sarah Palin – Kuwait Gallery
Here at ASHC we get an enormous amount of traffic from people looking for Sarah Palin photographs. My friend Jason over on postpolitical says he’s experiencing the same phenomenon on his blog, and we took to calling it the hunt … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged Alaska, Alaska National Guard, blog, desert, gallery, government, images, Kuwait, Kuwati, MILF, military, National Guard, Palin, palinporn, photos, pics, pictures, public domain, Republican, Sarah Palin, search engine, traffic, troops, veep, vice president, vp, VPILF, websites
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War of Conquest
A couple of days into Russian-declared, universally unrecognized independence (excluding Hamas and Belarus), South Ossetian officials have expressed their desire to be annexed by Russia. The brave new defenders of Russian imperialism on the American Left have thus suddenly found … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged American, annexation, Belarus, Boris Yeltsin, comonwealth, conquest, Georgia, Hamas, imperialism, independence, left, Russia, self-determination, South Ossetia, trade
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The Rise of the Governess
Way back in February 2007, when I was still writing for postpolitical, an obscure little blog popped up pitching Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency. At the time few were that familiar with Sarah’s record or wise enough to predict … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged 2008, 2012, conservatives, GOP, McCain, Mom, Palin, PTA, Republican, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, suffrage, veep, vice president, vp, women
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Eyewitness at Ohio Airfield Possibly Identifies Palin
Ah, the fever of speculation. This is an interesting report from a local paper in Ohio, which found an eyewitness to the alleged Palin plane: According to Rich Bevis of B&B Aero, the fixed-based operator at Hook Field, the jet, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged Alaska, B&B Aero, Bristol, Gulfstream IV, Hook Field, jet, McCain, Middletown, Ohio, Oxford Press, Palin, Rich Bevis, Sarah Palin, Seattle, veep, vice president, vp, Willow
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Ethnostatism Fails
The movement of “ethnic studies” curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called “multiculturalist,” but since they tend to be monoethnic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Lee's Page
Tagged academia, academic, American history, Arizona, Arizona Republic, astrology, astronomy, Che Guevara, colleges, cultural, curriculum, Department of Education Reform, Doug Maceachern, ethnic studies, ethnostatism, fascism, government, History, Jay P. Greene, math, monoethnic, multiculturalism, non sequitur, political, public schools, raza studies, trigonometry, Tucson, Tucson Union School District, TUSD, University of Arkansas
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The Vandalism of Russian Occupation
Ceasefire be damned,* the Russian army reportedly destroyed the Metekhi-Grakali railway bridge. The bridge was used by Georgian refugees fleeing the mayhem in the Russian occupied zones given that the highway is controlled by the Russian army, which has naturally … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged army, Azerbaijan, Azeri, bridge, ceasefire, Condoleezza Rice, corruption, energy, export, factions, Georgia, humanitarian crisis, infrastructure, Medvedev, Metekhi-Grakali, military, occupation, oligarchy, oligcarch, refugees, Russia, vandalism
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Russian Imperialism and the Election
(photo: Chris Dunn) John Bolton argues that the future of Russian imperialism in Eurasia rides on the outcome of the US presidential election. Unsurprisingly, he pitches McCain: “First reactions, before the campaigns’ pollsters and consultants get involved are always the … Continue reading
Posted in Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged campaign, centrism, consultants, divided government, Domestic Politics, election, Eurasia, Foreign affairs, Georgia, geostrategy, imperialism, indicators, invasion, John Bolton, McCain, Obama, political, polls, presidency, Rasmussen, revanchism, Russia, Russian imperialism, war
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NATO Protection only for Perfection?
Alex Harrowell reminds us that NATO wasn’t always so timorous about conflict risk exposure: [I]f we assume that Georgia, and specifically Mikhail Saakashvili’s version of it, wasn’t sufficiently responsible (adult, civilised, possibly even white?) to play, how do we explain … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged 1945, 1955, Aegean Sea, Alex Harrowell, conflict, cowboys, EU, Fistful of Euros, frozen conflict, frozen conflicts, Georgia, Germany, greece, indians, Mikhail Saakashvili, NATO, risk exposure, Russia, Turkey, war
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A Unity of Black Hearts
Russian Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Borisov, in command of occupied Gori, has finally received orders to do something about the Russian allied irregulars who are rampaging in Georgia committing atrocities: “Ossetians are killing poor Georgians, this is a problem and … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged atrocities, caucasus, children, elderly, ethnic cleansing, Georgia, Gori, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, murder, occupation, rape, Russia, Slobodan Milošević, South Ossetia, Thomas de Waal, Tony Halpin, Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Borisov, war, war crimes, Yugoslavia
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Georgian Wine Solidarity and Other Things
Estonians and Latvians are apparently buying up all available Georgian wine in a demonstration of national solidarity with the beleaguered republic. Particularly popular is the consumer label Old Tbilisi (order here). Sandra Saakashvili, First Lady of Georgia, is weathering the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged consumer, Estonia, Foreign Notes, Georgia, Georgian wine, humanitarian, Kateryna Yushchenko, Latvia, NATO, Old Tbilisi, Russia, Saakashvili, Sandra Saakashvili, snipers, Ukraine, wine
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Korski’s Horse Race of Horror & Overstaying Your Invasion
(photo: Vladimer Shioshvili) Daniel Korski very prematurely calls winners and losers in the Russo-Georgian War. Too much to be decided yet for this to be a sensible exercise…and there is that small matter that Russian armor is now only thirty … Continue reading
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Estonia: Get Georgia and Ukraine in NATO Now
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the West must act fast: “They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia,” he told Reuters by telephone, adding that a decision this year not to give the two … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Black Sea, Estonia, fleet, Georgia, NATO, Sevastopol, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko, war, West
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Deny, Deny, Legitimize.
It seems Russia is increasingly leaning toward dismembering the Republic of Georgia, something previously denied, now legitimized. The predominant characteristic of Russian policy in Georgia up to this point actually. In the same vein, Russia is finally admitting to being … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Anatoly Nogovitsyn, General staff, Georgia, intelligence, invasion, Nogovitsyn, Poti, republic, Russia, war
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Photos from the Front
89 amateur snapshots from the war in Georgia. Some are rather gruesome, so avoid this link if you’ve a weak stomach. It was good to see some US munitions and equipment in Georgian hands too.
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged amateur, equipment, front, Georgia, munitions, photos, Russia, snapshots, South Ossetia, US, war
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War Crimes Live
Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze gets shot by a Russian sniper as she delivered a live report near Gori. Tough girl, she finishes the report without a tear.
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Georgia, girl, Gori, journalism, live, Media, reporter, Russia, sniper, Tamara Urushadze, television, tough, video, youtube
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Russia as Rogue
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says “the world can forget about” Georgia’s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country’s war, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, charter, conflict, conquest, Cuba, foreign inister, Georgia, irridentism, Russia, separatists, Serbia, Sergei Lavrov, South Ossetia, United Nations, war
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Going to Tbilisi?
Russian units are on the move again in Georgian territory, apparently in violation of the truce agreement. One Russian soldier in a large convoy shouted an ominous flirtation to a press photographer outside Gori, hopefully in jest or lust: “Come … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Caucasian, Culture, democracy, Domestic Politics, factions, Georgia, Gori, Media, Medvedev, military, monocrats, photographer, political, Putin, Russia, Tbilisi, war
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Saakashvili has a Future
Last night Joshua argued that Saakashvili, having quite obviously failed to recapture his renegade territories, is certain to be finished one way or the other. Either overthrown by the Russian army, or by the Georgian people at the ballot box. … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged ballot box, democracy, Domestic Politics, Georgia, Joshua Foust, nationalism, Russia, Russian Army, Saakashvili, United States, war
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Gori Falls
It’s looking increasingly as if the alarmists were right and Russia intends to drop all pretense. Georgian troops are pulling back to Mtskheta to defend the approach to the capital, if Russia pushes to conquer and subjugate the entire country. … Continue reading
The Invasion of Western Georgia
Russia has invaded Western Georgia (proper) and captured Senaki, far from Abkhazia. It’s being billed by a Russian official as a preventive move against Georgian troop concentration. This being yet another new rationale invented on the fly to justify further … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged 1998, Abkhazia, Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia, invasion, puppet, Senaki, South Ossetia, trivia, war, Wu Wei
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So Ends the Kouchner Adventure
Russia wants Saakashvili gone and then categorically rejects the French ceasefire agreement Saakashvili signed. Even while the increasingly uncomfortable Medvedev says they’re all but finished with military operations. The humiliating exposure of Medvedev’s “presidency” is one of the more comical … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Cold War, Estonia, Europe, foreign policy, French, IBM, Javier Solana, Kouchner, Russia, Saakashvili, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, Tbilisi, Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Arms for Georgia
Evidently immune to the historical irony, Israel halted arms shipments to Georgia months ago due to fears of a Russian attack. As an IDF veteran interprets that: “When we found ourselves in a similar situation, we expected the world to … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged armor, arms, arms trade, AT4, attack, C-17, Georgia, georgians, Haaretz, IDF, Interior Ministry, Israel, Javelin, missile, Operation Nickel Back, Russia, Shota Utiashvili. spokesman, South Ossetia, veteran, war, weapons, Yom Kippur War
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Obama and the Fate of Criticism
“Tattered Hope” by Nathan Rupert Jason at postpolitical and I often get into testy email arguments about Barack Obama’s alleged “arrogance.” He is quite Greek in the sense that he thinks hubris is the fatal flaw at the heart of … Continue reading →