[lbo-talk] One or two flawed historical analogies (was Re: Stratfor: Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality)

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Mon, June 15, 2009 5:38 pm, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:


> The history is worth remembering, among other reasons, because Russia is
> in many ways similar to Weimar Germany

Russia and the rest of the contemporary semi-periphery have no
similarities to the semi-peripheries of the 1930s. Zero. None. In fact,
the BRICs are sitting on 3 trillion EUR in cash reserves, a tiny sliver of
which Russia recently used to buy GM's Opel car division.

-- DRR