The Lifeboat News
[ Message Archive | The Lifeboat News ]

    Re: PS: No Patreon-wall. NOM Archived Message

    Posted by Thomas Newfield on February 12, 2019, 10:54 pm, in reply to "Re: PS: No Patreon-wall. NOM"

    Yes I see where you're coming from.

    For Dmitry like most Russians i believe the bottom line is survival amid the ever-present and historic threat of their own annihilation / dismemberment at the hands of the West. The West being a culture of domination, war, and conquest and devoted to their own kind of technological development to that end... the only response is much, much better technology in the east. Military technology that is. And that means an industrial (and intellectual) civilisation to base this on. The Russian victory after the Soviet development in the 20s and 30s is a parallel sometimes made.

    I think the argument being made here, where it's going, is for a new, international Russian techological empire in the future, presumably benevolent against the standards of the western empires. A kind of Byzantium perhaps, grounded in
    a) Having all the uranium the world "needs" - - as long as
    b) use of this nuclear breeder reactor technology which is only possessed by Russia, apparently; and the ability to actually dispose of the waste properly.
    c) And Russia with global warming will increasingly be the global breadbasket, net food (and gas and uranium and tech) exporter to friendly countries.

    I think the thinking is that western collapse, for an enlightened, peaceful, agrarian East, may well me DEATH. So, here's Plan B. Can't say it fills me with optimism either.

    Message Thread: