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Dmitry Orlov

Dmitry Orlov 

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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

Organizational announcement

The 20th anniversary of the start of my blogging career has come and gone, entirely unnoticed by anyone, myself included. I did notice, however, that this blog is steadily declining, bringing me to think that it is time to make some changes.
Over the past two decades of continuous blogging, I have tried various approaches and venues.
• The first, from 2006 until 2021, was at https://cluborlov.blogspot.com, where just under a thousand of my earliest posts can still be found.
• I  also tried blogging at Patreon. Surprpsingly, it didn't ban me for being less than a full-retard liberal, but then in the spring of 2022 Patreon stopped working for me because of anti-Russian sanctions (at the time, I was already done with the US and living in Russia). Patreon blocked users from Russia and the US Treasury blocked payments to Russia. This forced me to switch venues yet again.
• Since then, I have been blogging at
I have looked forward to your texts exercising the part of my aging brain that deals with the written word. Be that as it may, I also enjoy the witty, dry and matter of fact video Orlov. Any chance of both? Would Mark Sloboda be an appropriate interlocutor?
I've been following your work for 2 decades, ever since the Peak Oil days, and I've always enjoyed your remarkable insights and dark humour. Switching to video is a step back in my view, reading is so much faster than watching a conversation. But if it helps you in reaching a wider audience, who am I to complain? So I'm curious what you will come up with.

L'Europe, un État défaillant

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Quel est le plus grand pays d'Europe ? Si vous avez répondu « la France » ou « l'Allemagne », vous vous trompez complètement. En effet, le terme « Europe » est une désignation géographique, et non politique, et le sous-continent européen rejoint le sous-continent asiatique au niveau des montagnes de l’Oural, en Russie. Une grande partie du territoire russe se trouve en Asie, et non en Europe, mais la seule partie européenne de la Russie s’étend sur près de quatre millions de kilomètres carrés, ce qui relègue la France, le plus grand pays d’Europe occidentale, à seulement 544 000 kilomètres carrés, loin derrière. Elle n’est même pas le deuxième plus grand pays d’Europe, puisque cette place revient à l’ancienne Ukraine, avec 603 549 km². Mais attendez, l’ancienne Ukraine n’a-t-elle pas un peu rétréci au cours de la dernière décennie ? Oh oui, sans la Crimée, Donetsk, Lougansk, Zaporijia et Kherson, elle ne fait plus qu’environ 450 111 kilomètres carrés, bien derrière la France. Félicitations, la France ! Tu es désormais le deuxième plus grand pays d’Europe (après la Russie). Quant à l’ancienne Ukraine, elle est désormais plus petite non seulement que la France, mais aussi que l’Espagne (506 000 km²).
Lorsqu’un pays voit son territoire rétrécir d’un quart, c’est un indicateur assez significatif de son effondrement interne, mais ce n’est pas le seul. Il y a aussi la population et l’économie. En termes de population, celle-ci est passée de 52 millions d’habitants lors de l’indépendance en 1991 à un chiffre compris entre 28 et 31 millions aujourd’hui, dont 6 millions de personnes déplacées à l’intérieur du pays. Il s’agit là de données officielles, mais selon des estimations non officielles faisant consensus, ce chiffre pourrait descendre jusqu’à 18 millions, car les statistiques du gouvernement ukrainien ne recensent pas avec précision le nombre d’Ukrainiens vivant à l’étranger à un moment donné, le nombre de soldats ukrainiens morts dont les corps pourrissent dans les champs et les forêts, ni le nombre d’Ukrainiens qui se sont enfuis en traversant les montagnes à pied ou en nageant à travers les rivières, etc. Cela fait de l’ancienne Ukraine la grande gagnante dans la catégorie du déclin démographique de l’histoire moderne, avec une perte de population atteignant 45 % par rapport à son pic, la Bulgarie (avec une baisse de 28 %) et les pays baltes (avec une baisse d’environ 25 %) remportant respectivement l’argent et le bronze.
Force est de constater que les USA ont fait du bon boulot, apres avoir faitt partir Charles de Gaulle avec là pr3miere révolution de couleur. Recrutement et financement dès plus dérangés maintenant à la tête des pays, sauf exceptions. Encouragement de toutes les déviances made in USA. Abrutissement des foules par une éducation médiocre que Allan Bloom avait déjà vu chez lui dans les années 80. Racisme. intolérance de bigots religieux. Drogues à profusion. Adolescentes à vie sexuelle de vieilles putains. Bravo les USA, contents de vos élèves ? 
Donald le cagueur vient d'annoncer quiil déclarera le détroit d'Ormuz territoire américain. Je suppose que c'est la représailles après que somebody a déclaré le détroit de sa femme territoire pour lui-même 🤣 excusez mon rire nerveux 🤣😂🤣😂
too difficult for me. 
I have this book, enjoyed it, and tell people the lessons from it all the time. Does your tech serve you, or do you serve it? What is your ideal level of technology, that will serve you without enslaving you?
Thank you for years of insights and wisdom. That book will continue to grow in relevance over time and may have several second lives.
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Russia takes the gloves off

Starting a week ago, a dramatic change took place in the way the war in the former Ukrainian SSR is being conducted. This is because exactly a week ago the Supreme Commander of Russia's armed forces (Vladimir Putin, that is) gave the go-ahead for starting a new, decisive round in their confrontation with NATO, for which the former Ukraine is but a proxy, calmly announcing: “Wherever the enemy intends to strike Russian territory, a mirror response of greater force will follow.” This is a major change of strategy, not some minor tactical change, and is therefore notable.
There is no single fully satisfactory explanation for the exact reasons and the timing of this change, but there are multiple considerations feeding into this decision.
• There is the domestic consideration: it could be that in the eyes of the Kremlin it has finally become politically necessary to take the gloves off. Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure in a large number of Russian regions has angered the populace to a point where a determined response was deemed necessary. A parliamentary election will be held in Russia this autumn, during which 450 seats in the State Duma will be voted on, and Putin's United Russia party would like to at least hold on to its 324 seats. To this end, it is important to address the dissatisfaction among the electorate with the slow pace of the Special Military Operation in the Ukraine, which is now in its 5th year. Yes, the Russian army is advancing inexorably (albeit slowly), but why are the Ukrainians being allowed to attack Russia's rear, causing damage to oil refineries and causing problems with the gasoline supply? The images of Russian soldiers unfurling Russian flags over yet another town in the new Russian regions, regularly shown on nightly news, are no longer as exciting as the images of exploding Ukrainian munition dumps, grain ships and, of course, gas stations. That is exactly what the Russians who have been forced to waste hours waiting in line to buy gas want to see!
There is a time stress there, on the side of the "free world of democracy", and the clock are ticking faster and faster. Iranians and Russians know very well, how to play with this , but this same is pushing the former to desperation. Desperate people are doing desperate deeds, so nothing is still safe.thinking_face
I wish more people
had insight to realize the difference in character between the Russians, who
draw from deep understanding of human character as being divine vs. the outlandish
Ukrainian stupidity that is shallow as a puddle. The U.S. is following suit. With
each new President we become entangled by the snakes that accompany them.
God help us.
I’m grateful however that Linsdey Graham is no longer my Senator. His sister who
is replacing him acts like a moron.
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