17-03-2015, 04:15 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:More Friedman:
Quote:`In Ukraine, U.S interests are incompatible with the interests of the Russian Federation` Stratfor chief George Friedman on the roots of the Ukraine crisis
]But the main question is whether Russia itself can come through in one piece. It is now facing many of the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union: the lack of an effective transportation system; a skeptical attitude towards the capital in many regions, from the Caucasus to the Far East; but the main thing is that there is an economy that can only function under certain circumstances -- namely, high energy prices. You have only one product, and today there is an excess of it on the global market.
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What, I wonder, is the purpose of Friedman's apparent recent garrulousness? Syke-warfare? If so, targeted at whom? The Russians? Or is this for the benefit of US policy-makers?
What he says in article - or speeches - to informed bodies is considerably different to the free analytical pieces that you can subscribe to at Stratfor. Those I have read today are very slippery and specious article "Can Putin Survive" which I've just posted HERE.
My take on his is that if you're one of the informed insiders, he'll speak - more or less - the way it actually is. For everyone else, it's soft propaganda and designed to keep everyone else in their mushroom state - in the dark and fed on shit.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14