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Books by Dmitry Orlov:
The Brown New Deal, 2025, EBook|Paperback
Устный иньглыщ, 2025, EBook
Uncontrolled Chaos, 2024, EBook|Paperback
The New Art of War, 2023, EBook|Paperback
Ready... Set... Bolt!, 2022, EBook|Paperback
The Arctic Fox Cometh, 2021, EBook|Paperback
The Meat Generation, 2020, EBook|Paperback
Collapse and the Good Life, 2018, EBook|Paperback
Collapse Chronicles, Volume V, 2017, EBook|Paperback
Shrinking the Technosphere, 2016, EBook|Paperback
Everything is Going According to Plan, 2016, EBook|Paperback
Emergency Eyewash, 2015, EBook|Paperback
Communities that Abide, 2014, Ebook|Paperback
Societies that Collapse, 2014, EBook|Paperback
The Five Stages of Collapse, 2013, EBook|Paperback
Absolutely Positive, 2012, EBook|Paperback
Reinventing Collapse, 2011, EBook|Paperback

To nuke or not to nuke, that is the question!

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Currently, Russia faces a bit of a problem. Western nations have taken to supplying the former Ukraine with missiles, drones and components for their manufacture. The US is also involved: the former Ukraine receives targeting information from Palantir and uses Starlink satellite communications. This by no means qualifies as an existential threat but it does pose a political problem for Russia's leaders.
By "the former Ukraine" I mean what's left of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as crafted by Lenin and Stalin out of random bits of the Russian Empire, then let loose by "drunk president" Boris Yeltsin. Since then it has lost half of its population (the younger and more capable half), virtually all of its once mighty industry, and is now a shadow of its former self. It has a very high death rate and a very low birth rate and is undergoing rapid demographic collapse. Its one remaining use (for the West) is to annoy Russia. It is the one and only category in which the former Ukraine remains a success.
Mr Orlov ,your analysis keeps me optimistic and happy no matter how crazy primitive and blood thirsty western civilisation is ,God bless Russia and its people ,greetings fro Crna Goraheartheartheartheartheart
If Russia wants to "win" then nukes should not be the main weapon, which can be used for certain targets if the military deems it necessary. The main weapon should be propaganda, which the russians are not good at. The fact is that the West is declining fast while Russia and China are growing economically. The gap between reality and fantasy here in Estonia is getting bigger all the time. We are told that Russia is going to collapse any time now but reality is something different and people are getting really angry now with giving money to Ukraine while poverty is increasing. People are far less enthusiastic here with project Ukraine than 4 years ago. So russians should become better at showing the reality in Russia and that russians are generally friendly and want to get along with Europe.
Rando, "if Russia wants to win", its "main weapon should be propaganda, which the Russians are not good at"? I am sorry, but this makes no sense at all. Maybe it makes sense in Estonian, in which case, that's really too bad.

Plus de pétrole pour l'Allemagne ?

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Vers la fin du mois d'avril, un article a été publié sur Oilprice.com : « L'Allemagne se démène pour trouver une route d'approvisionnement en pétrole en Pologne alors que la Russie interrompt les flux via Druzhba » :
"L'Allemagne cherche des solutions pour réacheminer les approvisionnements en pétrole brut vers la raffinerie PCK de Schwedt après que la Russie a annoncé qu'elle interrompt les livraisons de pétrole kazakh via l'oléoduc Druzhba à compter du 1er mai, ce qui met désormais en péril environ 43 000 barils par jour. Berlin est actuellement en pourparlers avec la Pologne pour acheminer des barils de remplacement via le port de Gdansk, les livraisons potentielles devant ensuite être acheminées vers Schwedt, la raffinerie qui approvisionne en carburants une grande partie de l’Allemagne de l’Est, y compris Berlin. Le Kazakhstan a expédié 2,146 millions de tonnes vers l’Allemagne via Druzhba l’année dernière, soit une hausse de 44 % par rapport à 2024, avec 730 000 tonnes supplémentaires livrées au premier trimestre. La Pologne affirme disposer de la capacité technique pour gérer des flux supplémentaires, mais l’accès au port, les calendriers d’expédition, la disponibilité du brut et la configuration des raffineries ont tous leur importance. Remplacer le brut acheminé par oléoduc par du brut transporté par voie maritime est rarement un échange à parité... Des alternatives existent pour Schwedt, mais elles sont plus coûteuses et plus compliquées. La raffinerie s’est de plus en plus appuyée sur le brut arrivant par les routes de la Baltique et le port allemand de Rostock, mais ces voies sont limitées."
Et c’est tout ce que vous sauriez à ce sujet si vous vous fiiez exclusivement à des sources anglophones. Mais en creusant un peu dans les publications russophones, une image bien plus détaillée se dessine. L'exploitant de l'oléoduc Druzhba (« Amitié »), propriété de la Russie, est la société russe Transneft, tandis que le pétrole qui l'alimente provenait effectivement principalement des trois plus grands gisements du Kazakhstan – Tengiz, Karachaganak et Kashagan – qui ont été développés et sont exploités sur la base d'accords de partage de production (PSA). Les partenaires de ces accords sont les suivants :

Parce qu’on ne peut pas !

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Les États-Unis ont une longue et fière tradition d’assassinat ou d’élimination des dirigeants qui ne leur plaisent pas. En près de quarante ans, leurs agissements sont passés d’une apparence de légalité à une véritable soif de sang et à la barbarie.
Observez la tendance :
• Ceux qui sont assez âgés se souviennent peut-être comment, en 1990, Bush père a tourmenté le petit pays d’Amérique centrale qu’est le Panama sous prétexte de lutter contre le « trafic de drogue », mais en réalité pour atténuer son « image de mauviette ». Les troupes américaines ont tué plusieurs centaines de Panaméens et causé d’importants dégâts matériels dans le but de capturer Manuel Noriega, un agent de la CIA. Noriega a ensuite purgé une peine de 17 ans à Miami, en Floride.
• En 1999, sous Clinton, les Américains ont bombardé la Yougoslavie puis laissé le président Slobodan Milošević mourir en prison de problèmes de santé non soignés. Dès lors, on ne faisait déjà plus guère semblant de lui offrir justice ou un procès équitable.
Excellent comme d'habitude. Merci
I didn't read one word just scrolled and skimmed for key words. The picture of the dancing Eastern bears and the decrepit American eagle ended my search. Made me laugh out loud for the day, great article!

How to survive a Russian tactical nuclear strike

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I would very much like my readers in Europe to survive the banquet of consequences which their representatives, elected or not, have prepared for them. To this end, they should:
1. Be nowhere near the epicenter of an expected Russian tactical nuclear strike
2. Be prepared for the eventuality of a Russian tactical nuclear strike in their vicinity and be prepared to swiftly regroup and evacuate
3. Know how to survive in a post-nuclear world
In this post, I will deal with point 1 above and provide a list of these locations and a rationale for why you should be nowhere near any of them. Of course, post-nuclear survival is not for everybody. Some people would prefer to just "cover themselves with a white bedsheet and slowly crawl toward the nearest cemetery — slowly, so as not to cause a stampede in which someone might get hurt." (This is a Russian Cold War joke.) But I do hope that my readers are survival-minded.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that a problem exists. This is a stretch goal for many people in Europe who still believe that they are magic elves living under an American nuclear umbrella even as their leaders put them in grave danger. In a previous post, I detailed how the currently popular Western sport of "baiting the Russian bear" is likely to produce lethal consequences:
Comment la France de macron a réussi à ne pas tomber dans ce piège, c'est un mystère pour moi. Vous allez me dire que son dossier est déjà bien chargé. 
Why is Norway left out. NATO northern Comand is there.
agressively lazy, I'd pass your question along to the Ministry of Defense if I knew how to do that.
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