An American tourist in Russia
My friend Billy Bob graciously invited me to come back as a guest speaker for “Foreign Policy Review” on his YouTube channel. Today we talked about the likelihood of a major provocation in Ukraine before or during the NATO summit next week, how useful of an ally China is to Russia, and the state of “collective west’s” military stockpiles.
The other day I briefly met an old Soviet dissident who left the USSR for the USA and now left the USA for Russia. I’ve never met this guy before and probably will never see him again. The event that brought us together didn’t imply that we must be friends or even talk, so we … Read more
Before I start, let me clarify something: there is no specific economic concept that I wholeheartedly support and I don’t consider myself a communist. On the other hand, capitalism has proved to be less than perfect, to put it mildly. Truth is probably elsewhere or in between. Let’s start with my brand new axiom (it … Read more
In 1916, entrepreneur Clarence Saunders invented America’s first self-service grocery store, a truly revolutionary idea that swept across the country and then the world. Now, a little over a century later, the American self-service grocery store is dying, but not for a reason anyone could have predicted.
