#USSR

Brad Dunkley

BradDunkley

1. Some thoughts on inflation:I think there’s a really good shot of inflation > Fed target in 2H and beyondsavings are high and consumers are going to spend that money

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

So, watched @SecPompeo's remarks on China. Very loaded. The core idea seems to be some new form of confronting China but it can't be containment because, Pompeo says, China isn't

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thuletide

it's just Global Communism tbh brogood thread, but yuo take Communism at face value, i.e. you assume that it's actually about workers owning the means of production if that is

Alice Evans

_alice_evans

97% of CCP provincial leaders are male?https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/pretty-lady-cadres-china - excellent piece by @shenlulushenI’d add, patriarchal governance is reinforced by authoritarianism.It silences feminist

Jim Goldgeier

JimGoldgeier

Finishing @peterbakernyt @sbg1 fascinating book on former SecState James Baker right before the election left me reminiscing about where I was 20 years ago, the day before the 2000 election.

Frontier Indica

frontierindica

In what was United Bengal (modern day West Bengal+Bangladesh) back in 1941, Muslims were 56% of the population, and today they are approximately about 67% of the population. If you

Ayman Rashdan Wong

AymanRashdanW

Hari ini adalah ulang tahun ke-70 permulaan Perang Korea antara Korea Utara dan Korea Selatan (25/06/1950 – 27/07/1953) yang mengorbankan hampir 5 juta nyawa. Perang Korea sebenarnya belum tamat. Kedua-dua

Daniel Korski

DanielKorski

THREAD You may be thinking - #Belarus? Where? Odd European corner of the post-Soviet community. But many great people were born in what is modern-day Belarus, people who created much

Cdr Ashok Bijalwan

AshTheWiz

An interesting tale about submarines.A Soviet submarine ran aground on Sweden's south coast very close to a Swedish naval base in 1981. They claimed it was due to an emergency

Statler and Waldorf

GrumpyWaldorf

since the US became a consumer driven debtor of the world, the biggest debtor in the entire history of human kind and its biggest financers felt it was creating a

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

Thread on Naghlu Dam Tweets by AF (@TheFahimi): 1/8Khrushchev and Bulganin welcomed by PM Muhammad Daud Khan in #Kabul in Dec 1955. They agreed to extend a $100 million aid

Əfsanə Yusifli

efsane_yusifli

#Khankendi looting or Khankendi pogroms is an act of mass looting and pogrom committed against the local Azerbaijani population on September 18, 1988 in the city of Khankendi, Nagorno-Karabakh region

Mike Mihajlovic

MihajlovicMike

It is well known that the US is the first country to develop stealth technology, but how many people are aware that stealth would be impossible without an "industrial-strength" theory

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

Between 1975-2016 only the Liberals/Lib-Dems & the DUP stayed on the same side of the EEC/EU debate, everyone else (Tory, , UUP, Sinn Fein, Plaid Cymru, Greens, SNP,) swapped sides.

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

I don't think there is any one phrase that so adequately summarizes the global moment we're living in than this one attributed to David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who died

Friend of the Talking Bird

DrugGovoruna

Something I want to spell out.The Soviet Union in the 1980s had about 270 million citizens. About 1/2 were Russians, the rest were everyone else. The Estonians were basically Nordics;

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