I know the feeling, I had to switch between laptop and blackberry around this time last year, something I picked up at Hot Air or Politico,
now Orwell predicted this state of events, one year before the Soviets
detonated their bomb, he cribbed off James Burnham, but the Malabar
front, just one of the overlapping spheres of influence, was not unlike
many of the conflicts in the cold war, Kennedy didn't really proceed with the Bay of Pigs, because he feared a confrontation in Berlin, Brendan Dubois's 'Resurrection Day' takes that notion to it's logical conclusion in it's alt apocalyptic tale
Actually the problem occurred with the Soviet acquisition of the bomb in 1949, that created the balance of terror, which exploded exponentially, ironically that did usher in the space age with Korolyev
on one end, and Von Braun on the other, it did limit major conflicts to brushfires, like Vietnam and Afghanistan, Cuba, Hungary, all fell into
the maw on that circumstance
Well Kennedy was killed for basically fullfilling his policy goals, and Kruschev was removed for failing at his. Which left the old guard
apparatchik, Brezhnev, and the beginning of the real stagnation of
the Soviet system, which carried through to Andropov and Chernenko,
Gorbachev tried to resurrect the system, but failed at that goal. Because the system can't be salvaged. Yeltsin tried to clean house,
in some ways, but the system stagnated in it's own way. The answer
found among the oprichniki, of old was Putin, the czar in all but crown.
The Highlander is the Hegel enthusiast, Lagushka is the odd bits from
the Near East one, Scott you're sui generis
I know the feeling, I had to switch between laptop and blackberry around this time last year, something I picked up at Hot Air or Politico,
now Orwell predicted this state of events, one year before the Soviets
detonated their bomb, he cribbed off James Burnham, but the Malabar
front, just one of the overlapping spheres of influence, was not unlike
many of the conflicts in the cold war, Kennedy didn't really proceed with the Bay of Pigs, because he feared a confrontation in Berlin, Brendan Dubois's 'Resurrection Day' takes that notion to it's logical conclusion in it's alt apocalyptic tale
Actually the problem occurred with the Soviet acquisition of the bomb in 1949, that created the balance of terror, which exploded exponentially, ironically that did usher in the space age with Korolyev
on one end, and Von Braun on the other, it did limit major conflicts to brushfires, like Vietnam and Afghanistan, Cuba, Hungary, all fell into
the maw on that circumstance
Well Kennedy was killed for basically fullfilling his policy goals, and Kruschev was removed for failing at his. Which left the old guard
apparatchik, Brezhnev, and the beginning of the real stagnation of
the Soviet system, which carried through to Andropov and Chernenko,
Gorbachev tried to resurrect the system, but failed at that goal. Because the system can't be salvaged. Yeltsin tried to clean house,
in some ways, but the system stagnated in it's own way. The answer
found among the oprichniki, of old was Putin, the czar in all but crown.