Jiri SeveraThe Importance of Snuff in Mideast PoliticsOne of the scariest aspects of our time is the increased speed toward moral cretinism in global elites. The development is uneven, with the…Oct 16, 2023Oct 16, 2023
Jiri SeveraIt Ain’t Over Till It’s Over (in Ukraine)A news item from this weekend illustrates well the depth of intellectual marasmus to which the West sank. Newsweek ran a story with the…Aug 10, 2023Aug 10, 2023
Jiri SeveraStrelkov, the Bridge, and Russia’s War Exit StrategyThis morning the pro-Ukrainian web chat boxes and some western MSM outlets were outdoing each other with comments on the apparent arrest of…Jul 21, 2023Jul 21, 2023
Jiri SeveraTurgenev Mother’s Whip vs a Whiff of Common SenseA week ago, Sergey Karaganov, a Moscow academic and former advisor to Vladimir Putin made a splash as far as New York Times in arguing in…Jun 23, 2023Jun 23, 2023
Jiri SeveraIs Ukraine Really Necessary?As political journeys go, Dmitry Medvedev’s recent dash across the spectrum is a rare sight. Like Putin, his friend and close collaborator…Apr 13, 20231Apr 13, 20231
Jiri SeveraUkraine — a theatre of the absurd…of sortsTheatre of the absurd, is it ? The knowledgeable readers will know the context of the Russian phrase in president Putin’s recent big…Mar 9, 2023Mar 9, 2023
Jiri SeveraToward an Early History of Post-UkraineThe overall situation in Ukraine is “difficult to read”, the former Czech president Václav Klaus says. I doubt though he would go as far as…Jun 9, 2022Jun 9, 2022
Jiri SeveraThe Godfather Strikes Back…kindaOne of the stories from Ukraine on the brink in January this year, entirely ignored by the western media but having perhaps a major impact…Mar 17, 2022Mar 17, 2022
Jiri SeveraКто кого in UkraineКто кого (kto kavo) in Ukraine? The phrase is an old Lenin’s maxim meaning “who will get the better of whom”. It will be us or it will be…Feb 12, 2022Feb 12, 2022
Jiri SeveraAmerica’s post-Soviet bridge too farThere was a joke making rounds in Belgrade in 1999, during the NATO bombing campaign of Yugoslavia to stop Milosevic’ alleged ethic…Jan 24, 2022Jan 24, 2022