Recent content by The Militant Doberman

Picadora de Carne (English: Meat Grinder) is a military TL about the US invasion of Cuba in 1990s when the civil unrest and shortages resulting from the loss of the Soviet Union as its backer & trade partner spills over into an open civil war on the island. TL is told from the point of view of...

There have been arguments that Somalia actually does (or could) represent an Anarcho-Capitalist society as outlined in Western thought. Proponents of this claim that problems like warlordism in Somalia stem from outside powers trying to force a non-anarchist system of centralized power onto the...

With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...

Excerpt from a letter by the Kirkuk’s Council of Imams to the chief officer of the city’s Imperial Russian garrison circa 1921. With the Ottoman collapse in WW1, the Russian Empire was able to recruit the local Christians & Yezidis to create the Euphrates Cossack Host to fight for the Entente in...

If Hades isn’t the King of Olympus, the myth of Hades kidnapping Hera* either doesn’t exist or is much less important overall. So you wouldn’t have a strong tradition of bridal kidnapping in the West (you’re still likely to see it in places like Caucuses Mountains, Central Asia & parts of Africa...

Some photos from an article about abandoned locations in Russia:

The name of the main temple-lodge for the Russian-branch of the esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn. Built in 1916 on the banks of the Moskva river, the lodge was consecrated by Golden-Dawn founder Samuel Liddell MacGregor in a ceremony attended by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna herself (whose...

Excerpt from a 2005 C.N.N. interview with “Wang Weilin”, the famous “Tank Man” protester who stood in the way of a column of P.L.A. Type-59 tanks during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Wang was arrested by Chinese authorities following his non-violent protest and sentenced to a prison term...

A colloquialism roughly meaning to “flip-flop” or to “betray an idea”. The phrase stems from the actions of Sun Myung Moon, the leader & founder of the controversial Unification Church in Korea. When North and South Korea agreed to sign a peace treaty and unite as the “Democratic Confederal...

Hm... reading that article it seems that the Syriacs adopted some Hindu customs and integrated into the cast system but didn’t really have religious syncretism with Hinduism (i.e.: Brahma wasn’t believed to be an aspect/version of the Abrahamic God, etc.)

That sounds interesting. Do you have any links that go into more detail on these Syriac Indians & their beliefs?

Excerpt from a 2003 novel “A Train-ride to Kandahar” by Russian author Venedikt Yerofeyev. A spiritual successor to his famous work “Moscow To The End of The Line”, the novel tells the journey of a young alcoholic Russian soldier travelling on a military train from Russia to a base in...

If you couldn’t tell from the “:rolleyes:”, I do not agree with the sentiment.

We actually had people on this very subforum arguing that non-Westerners adopting Western ideas on governance constitutes pseudo-colonialism and/or internalized-colonialism :rolleyes:

Back in 1987 Kingdom of Morocco applied to join the European Community (precursor to the modern E.U.), becoming the 1st Maghreb nation to do so. After much deliberation, Brussels agreed that Morocco meets the criteria of joining the Community due to historic ties and mutual influence Morocco had...