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| Mark Steyn: The death of Mother Russia |
| 2024-08-04 |
Reprising an article germane to what we are seeing in Russia today. I happened across this in the Rantburg archives while searching for something else entirely, posted on 21. October, 2005. Link goes to the Rantburg post by anonymous5089, who commented: Excellent, and so sad, so true. That's why I think the eurasists and "Europe-Power" tenants here in France and in Europe, who are hoping for an Eurasian alliance (the Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing axis, with its islamic protégés) are basically daydreaming. Bottom line is : Europe is dying, and Russia is leading the way. You don't summon a continental superpower with an average birthrate at half remplacement level and an anemic economic growth. Reader Jack Fulmer sent me the following item, which appeared a century ago — 13 September 1905 — in the Gay Paree edition of the New York Herald: Holy War Waged St. Petersburg: The districts of Zangezur and Jebrail are swarming with Tartar bands under the leadership of chiefs, and in some cases accompanied by Tartar police officials. Green banners are carried and a ’Holy War’ is being proclaimed. All Armenians, without distinction of sex or age are being massacred. Many thousand Tartar horsemen have crossed the Perso-Russian frontier and joined the krazed killers. Horrible scenes attended the destruction of the village of Minkind. Three hundred Armenians were massacred and mutilated. The children were thrown to the dogs and the few survivors were forced to embrace Islamism. Plus ca change, eh? Last week Islamists killed a big bunch of people in Nalchik, the capital of the hitherto more-or-less safe-ish Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. True, in our more sensitive age the Herald Tribune’s current owners, the New York Times |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Remember when China told everyone to have kids and before long they were overflowing with people and had to restrict everyone to one child. Russia should try something similar. Create incentives to have children and encourage Russian emigrants to return to the motherland. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2024-08-04 11:47 |
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| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-04 06:02 |