Explaining Russia’s Official Response to Shinzo Abe’s Assassination

Explaining Russia’s Official Response to Shinzo Abe’s Assassination

The contrast between Abe’s portrayal by the Alt-Media Community and Russian officials couldn’t be sharper despite both forces supporting the global systemic transition to multipolarity. This goes to show that it’s possible for folks to have the same geostrategic end game in mind while nevertheless going about it differently. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s…

Putin Cautioned Russian Strategic Forecasters Against Indulging In Wishful Thinking

Putin Cautioned Russian Strategic Forecasters Against Indulging In Wishful Thinking

Strategic forecasters must always aspire to reflect reality as accurately as they can, understanding that this is impossible to perfectly do in practice but nevertheless continually moving in this direction and regularly improving their work to this end. President Putin spoke to current staff and veterans of his Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on the centenary…

The Socio-Political (Soft Security) Dynamics of Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan Crisis

The Socio-Political (Soft Security) Dynamics of Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan Crisis

Uzbekistan’s ”Democratic Security” challenge now is to manage local and national perceptions about what transpired so as to avoid having well-intended but naïve folks misled by foreign narratives falsely alleging “unprovoked state killings of unarmed protesters” into replicating Karakalpakstan’s critical mass of protesters all throughout the country ahead of the unscheduled referendum for approving the…

Deconstructing What Just Transpired in Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan on Friday

Deconstructing What Just Transpired in Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan on Friday

Either one ascribes to the oversimplified and arguably inaccurate assessment propagated by many in the Alt-Media Community for reasons of “narrative/political convenience” or they aspire to obtain a more nuanced understanding of the complex socio-political processes (soft security) connected to Color Revolutions in general and to the Nukus Incident in particular. The first will result…

Israel Just Utterly Humiliated the Alt-Media Community

Israel Just Utterly Humiliated the Alt-Media Community

The artificially manufactured euphoria rush generated by believing the false report about Syria allegedly being allowed to use the S-300s was followed by a cold slap of reality after Israel once again struck the Arab Republic exactly a week later and thus discredited all those who shared this fake news. Those in the Alt-Media Community…

Russia Must Urgently Devise & Implement An International Media Backup Plan

Russia Must Urgently Devise & Implement An International Media Backup Plan

It’s only through these means – encouraging their audience to use proxies to access Western-censored Russian media, offering generous and comprehensive packages for incentivizing qualified professionals to migrate to Russia, and working closely with those who are already deeply rooted here and considered to be reliable – that publicly financed Russian international media can survive…