Comments on: Belarus willing to remerge with Russia https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064378 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:49:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064378 “You don’t have Idea’s, Idea’s have You”
Jordan Peterson (excerpted from “Maps of Meaning 2016: The Story and it’s transformation.”
https://youtu.be/XieOdyVThLU
1:32

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064375 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 02:51:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064375 Col Beausabre—
Good one.

Intro to In A Mirror Darkly (intro)
ST: Enterprise
https://youtu.be/qXw6hC7hxBA
3:03

]]> By: commodude https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064364 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:55:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064364 As to succession, look to the bench in the internal security apparatus, the FSB, the “reformed” KGB.

The immediate lieutenants in the apparatus are both 1 year older than Vlad, and while it wouldn’t be unusual for the Soviets to elect an older premier than the one who just left office, in the case of Vlad;s successor it would be curious.

I would be VERY surprised if Vlad’s successor hasn’t already been fingered. It just wouldn’t be in keeping with their character politically.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064363 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:25:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064363 I don’t know, but does Putin have a son?

I can not see the Russians ‘electing’ a woman.

If Putin is not quietly the richest man in Russia by now then he is not doing something right. those riches should be able to buy the presidency again for the person he chooses.

]]> By: William Barton https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064361 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:38:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064361 Since Peter the Great, Russia has consciously modeled itself on France, so it’s possible it might wind up in the same place eventually, after more convulsions. I think a lot depends on what happens with Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. The Russian colonization of western Siberia and what’s called the Russian Far East was a lot bigger than the French settlements on the coast of Algeria. The only stamp France put on its possessions (other than Quebec) was leaving a corrupt Francophone native elite behind (remeber how French West Africa used to dominatre the continent?).

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064356 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:00:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064356 I wonder if we need a corollary to Godwin’s Law – “The probability that the longer discussions in scientific oriented blogs continue the probability they will turn into discussions of Star Trek approaches 1”

To my mind, the conditions of in post-Putin Russia will be those proposed by Thomas Hobbes in “Leviathan” in the 17th Century – “A war of all against all”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064354 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:08:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064354 pzatchock-
ya know, that’s actually a fairly good series! I’ve seen more of these than the new CBS variant.

pivoting–
The evil Captain Janeway
https://youtu.be/TWfSvBGtYYI
3:23

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064353 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:47:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064353 “the bearded Spock”

Mow that’s a classic reference.

Try episode 3

https://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064334 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:19:17 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064334 In reply to mike shupp.

mike shupp wrote, “And what I find myself wondering about is who takes over after Putin dies?”

This is a really great question that has not been given the attention it deserves, especially because Putin’s power plays to maintain control have essentially destroyed the constitutional framework put in place by Yeltsin before him. There is no reliable system for picking future leaders. It will be a brutal power struggle, reminiscent of the world of the bearded Spock.

]]> By: mike shupp https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064331 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:01:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064331 I have to wonder — Putin’s been Premier or President of Russia since about 2000, and he’s 66 years old — which isn’t young, for all the photographs of the bare-chested man chopping logs and wrestling bears and shooting down wolves in the middle of Siberian winters. And it’s not as if your typical … uh … Strong National Leader … has much chance of handing down power to a personally chosen heir. In fact the only contemporary examples I can think of are Assad in Syria — and we know how well that’s going! — and the Kim dynasty in North Korea.

Granted, as an English-speaking American, I’m not getting what Russians would view as a “friendly” or “objective” view of their society, but it doesn’t strike me that Russia is particularly well run or that the paths to political power are particularly clear. And what I find myself wondering about is who takes over after Putin dies? How smooth and orderly (i.e., blood-free) will that transition be? and how important will Russia be as a European power in the years after that transition? And of course, what will be the impact on ordinary Russian citizens, and on the rest of the world?

]]> By: William Barton https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/belarus-willing-to-remerge-with-russia/#comment-1064325 Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:00:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=56549#comment-1064325 Belarus was never really an independent country. The closest it came was probably the Medieval Principality of Polotsk, 900 years ago. White Russian was an important language, especially when used in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but it’s not the only important language never to have had its own country. Low German was the language of the Hanseatic League, but there was never a country called Low-Germany. Back when the Soviet Union was on the verge of breaking up, I wondered if the successor government would try to hold onto the main Slavic components (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the northern half of Kakakhstan). I was a little suprised when it fractured along the old SSR borders and have been wondering how long that would last.

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