Category: Western civilization
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Staunch Russia First Proponent, Dmitri Medvedev, Decries West’s Russophobia, Calls for Destruction of Europe, late December 2024
Dmitri Medvedev, in his December 27, 2024, Telegram message suggests that it is in Russia’s best interests to ignore the United States, since the alternative would lead to an all-out nuclear war. On the other hand, Europe should be punished for its anti-Russia position by all means possible, into the mix of which would be…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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“We Have Faith, They Have Religion”
Thus Russtrat director, Elena Panina, begins her May 5, 2023 opinion piece in which she reasons that Russia will prevail in Ukraine because the former is united under the rubric of ‘faith,’ i.e., that ‘God is on our side’ because of the justness of the cause under the banner of which the SMO [Special Military…
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Christian Humanism – A Panacea for the Russian Condition?
In his editorial, In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct of Self-Preservation (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/125354824/posts/4359682819 for my translation), Russian intellectual Aleksandr Tsipko addresses Russia’s propensity, because of its authoritarian power structure, to “eternally intrud[e] into the world of the unpredictable.” This tendency, he argues, is based on an autocratic leader’s irrational intuition,…
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In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct for Self-Preservation
Russian intellectual and social philosopher Aleksandr Sergeyevich Tsipko on June 6, 2022, wrote the following opinion piece on the Newspaper Ideas and People internet site. By utilizing the Platonic philosophy of the partıcular vs the universal, Tsipko speaks truth to power, excoriating Russia’s return to an autocratic system of government which in turn led to…
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Being Infatuated with Anti-Western Ideas Has Become a Dangerous Path for Russia
The following is an opinion piece published on the Moscow Komsomolets news site written by Aleksandr Tsipko, who, as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1972, has enjoyed a long career as a social philosopher and political scientist. He was a proponent of Gorbachev’s perestroika strategy and is the director of the…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
The Dragon is Slain 