Geopolitika, in a fiction-publishing first (and maybe last??? =O ), ran Dr. Ironsides’s Moscow adventures today!

25.12.2023
Russia

Perrin Lovett
Tom Ironsides Fiction

Vrubel Hall, the Hotel Metropol, Moscow, a late afternoon in December…

Tom glanced around the wide room for a moment as he thought. ‘It is,’ be began again, ‘in a sad and ironic way, an inverted or worsened retelling of part of the original Christmas Story. We have some similar players and oddly reminiscent circumstances. My evil, dying US empire stands in for Rome. He, damn him, the worst leader in their malicious history, is doing a fine job portraying Herod. But instead of just killing the baby boys, he’s murdering all the children. And everybody else. Two thousand years ago, Augustus was rumored to have said, Melior est porcus quam princeps. That is, kind of, it is safer to be a Herodian pig than a son of the tyrant. Of course, our stand-in emperor is a pathetic, half-dead moron who can’t even walk and lick ice cream at the same time. But maybe this explains why the new client king’s own worthless son is hiding out in Miami. Who knows? At the risk of causing an international row, I will say that I would simply love to hack the despot’s head off with a dull axe.’

The gathered fans of multipolarity had quickly grown accustomed to Tom’s blunt and seemingly angered speech that night, punctuated with odd side discussions with and to himself. Most of them chuckled heartily at the notion of bitted justice even as they considered the painful truth behind the historical comparison.

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Read the Whole Thing (again?).

In a semi-related note, I’m pleased to see my tandem review of two books by Leonid Savin and Clyde Wilson was house translated into Italian:

Perrin Lovett

Recensioni di ORDO PLURIVERSALIS di Leonid Savin e LOOKING FOR MR. JEFFERSON del Dr. Clyde N. Wilson.

Oggi ho il raro onore di presentare due libri eccellenti in un’unica recensione! Si tratta di Ordo Pluriversalis di Leonid Savin e di Looking For Mr. Jefferson di Clyde Wilson. Come anteprima della recensione, “Ordo Pluriversalis” è, ovviamente, il termine latino per “ordine versatile” o “ordine dei molti”, un nome naturale per un tomo sul multipolarismo delle Nazioni Sovrane; e, non cercate oltre, abbiamo trovato Jefferson, in un certo senso salvandolo da quasi due secoli di confusioni. Nella mia mente, queste opere sono in qualche modo collegate tra loro, sebbene i loro argomenti siano separati sia dagli oceani che dal considerevole passare del tempo. Inoltre, entrambe sono giunte alla mia attenzione e in mio possesso nel giro di pochi giorni. Pertanto, nel tentativo di accontentare tutti, li discuto qui di seguito in successione e con un piccolo grado di sovrapposizione. Li raccomando entrambi con il massimo entusiasmo e sincerità.

Savin, Leonid, Ordo Pluriversalis: The End of Pax Americana and the Rise of Multipolarity, Londra: Black House, 2020.

Indipendentemente da latitudine, longitudine e velocità di rotazione…

Merry literary Christmas!