Archive - Librarian’s Substack

15. SEVEN CONSIDERATIONS TO THE RUSSIAN WAY OF DETERRENCE AND DEEPER QUESTIONS

PART TWO: Western scholars are just beginning to explore various aspects of Russian strategy and operations in depth. The topic of coercion will loom…

Jun 12 •

May 2025

14. The Russian way of Deterrence, Dmitry Adamsky 2023, from chapter 5

Western scholars are just beginning to explore various aspects of Russian strategy and operations in depth. The topic of coercion will loom large among…

May 17 •

13. I will try to sort out early excesses of the Putin Kremlin

This was around 2005 – 2010, and it set a trajectory for Kremlin policy, but I do not know what policy is today, nor the limits or make-up of the…

May 3 •

April 2025

11. First Years of the Putin Kremlin

PUTIN WAS NOT A POLITICIAN: He was unknown. So who put him in the seat of power and why? It had to be the oligarchs, those who ran everything, and…

Apr 26 •

10. How and Why Putin got elected, & extent of his power

Pavlovski in 1996, with a small group of ‘political technologists’ achieved the impossible, by getting Boris Yeltsin re-elected as president. Soon, he…

Apr 18 •

9. Whitewashing Terrorists into National Heroes (Nazis)

Ukraine Rewriting History: Let's stay with this era a little bit longer to see how the past becomes a base for the future. (A logical sequences from…

Apr 7 •

March 2025

8. OUN, Ukrainian for, Orhanizatsiia Ukraïns’kykh Natsionalistiv

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists had been founded in the 1920s.

Mar 30 •

7. SHOCK THERAPY, The Harvard Boys - and the Troika, series 2 of 2

HERE IS ANOTHER LOOK AT IT from "Provoked", by Scott Horton, 4,600 words

Mar 24 •

6. SHOCK THERAPY, The Harvard Boys - “Do Russia”, series 1 of 2

After seven years of “economic reform” financed by billions of dollars from U.S. , subsidized loans and rescheduled debt, the majority of Soviet, (now…

Mar 20

5. The Generals coup d'état 1991, Yeltsin, and the 1993 Ostankino affair.

The enduring image of the ordeal was of Yeltsin standing on a tank in a flak jacket, portrayed as a clash between public democracy and totalitarian…

Mar 16 •

4. The American people are not going to war with Russia over Ukraine, full stop.

SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL, February 2014, the Crimea Operation. FROM IMPERIAL GAMBLE, Marvin Kalb 2015. Novorossiya badge in cover photo.

Mar 9 •

3. Another look at the Euro-Maidan and its Snipers

From the book "Black wind White snow", by Charles Clover 2016

Mar 6 •

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