Eurasia

I imagine you could do something in, like, an auditory medium, like with the radio, where you have...

I don't know, two people are in Oxfordshire or the thing is set in Oxfordshire and they're having a conversation and in the background you could have the sound of a Eurasian honey badger as it's snuffling through whatever, right? Right, right.

But actually, the Eurasian honey badger has been completely eradicated from Oxfordshire.

So there's an audio clue there that you're not really in Oxfordshire and you're actually over the border in whatever borders Oxfordshire.

Clearly,

they're just crawling with Eurasian honey

badgers.

Now, again, technically, you have... played fair there because you've let us know that they're in a space if again it's that yeah you recognize the calling of the eurasian honey badger then then you're sorted so i'm really fascinated with the way in which clues work in in different media i think people showing it have a much easier time than people describing it and i think it must be really interesting and i'm interested to see what you think about this because While one episode of Done to Death has been produced, there are, I think, as you say, another four have been written that we are hoping will get picked up for a season.

It's a matter of fact.

At the same time, we can see or we can observe rebalancing of Russian position in international affairs, departure from the Western orientation towards Eurasia or Eastern orientation towards and focus on the Global South.

And it seems to me that it works under the current conditions.

And so it means that the strategy or argumentation from many Western leaders that Russia is isolated and no one is interested in cooperating with it, completely false.

And they openly call for normalization of relations with Russia and cooperation with Russia and the population.

there is a broad consensus, at least in these parts of Germany, that normal relations with Russia are favorable to German interests and themselves, because they can see it in their concrete lives, that the energy prices, it's skyrocketing and it's of course it's related to uh to the war uh in ukraine to not only it's also about green deal and so on but uh the ukraine war is one of uh important factors

So if we think about the overall strategy that certainly a couple of the neoconservatives in the United States had in the last 10 years, which is of course to make sure that Brzezinski's vision of the world remains alive, which is a fractured and fragmented Eurasia in the interest of the United States and using Ukraine as one of these pivotal states that can be leveraged for that purpose, that if this war actually ends on the terms of Russia, And if the hurt on the Europeans, which they imposed on themselves through these sanctions, is big enough and suddenly states start flipping, like Germany, like France with Marine Le Pen, it might actually lead to the opposite.

It might then lead to a further integration of the Eurasian continent if we get lucky.

Not only, it's also about Green Deal and so on, but the Ukraine war is one of important factors.

If we think about the overall strategy that certainly a couple of the neoconservatives in the United States had in the last 10 years, which is of course to make sure that Brzezinski's vision of the world remains alive, which is a fractured and fragmented Eurasia in the interest of the United States and using Ukraine as one of these pivotal states that can be leveraged for that purpose that if this war actually ends on the terms of Russia and if the hurt on the Europeans, which they imposed on themselves through these sanctions, is big enough and suddenly states start flipping, like Germany, like France with Marine Le Pen, it might actually lead to the opposite.

It might then lead to a further integration of the Eurasian continent if we get lucky.

Would you think that that is actually one of the possible mid- or long-term scenarios?

It's one of the possible scenarios.

Of course, there is no guarantee it will happen in such a way, but if the war ends in Ukraine, There is no reason why not to restore relations with Russia, because Russia, even though it's a Eurasian country or Asian country, in a sense, it's also a European country.

And it's not only about history and culture, but also about geography.

And Russia is a part of Europe, and that's the fatal... misunderstanding or misconception of the liberal elites in the European Union that are able to believe that they can push Russia off Europe, but it's not possible.

So as far as thoughts go on 9-11, it's been a quarter century, which to me, It still feels like yesterday.

I was a freshman in high school, was actually in a geography class talking about Europe and also Eurasia.

And the fact that we had to cut it short and put on the TV and just watched everything that was going on, the hysteria and everything that was going on, everything was canceled after that.

I think everything stopped in the world.

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And so too is the idea that you make deals with other great powers to divide the world between yourselves.

So the retreat of the United States to the Western Hemisphere implicitly carries with it Russian rights to Europe and Chinese rights to East Asia.

So you are in effect dividing the world according to the political geography of the George Orwell novel 1984 Oceania and Eurasia and East Asia.

That is the world view that Russia thinks is normal and natural and now has transferred into the United States as well.

Uh, and so one of them has been like traditional Western astrology, because I find that astrology really is this symbolic language that is, uh, underpinning most of the esoteric currents in the world.

Um, especially like the, the Eurasian, uh, North African civilized world.

But even in Mesoamerica, their form of astrology is very important too.

So it really provides such an important way for understanding the cosmos and how everything interacts and interrelates.

Yes, house sparrows are classified as an invasive species in North America.

Origin, house sparrows are native to Eurasia and parts of North Africa.

Humans brought them to North America in the 1850s, first released in Brooklyn, New York in 1851 and 1852 to control insect pests.

We did that way too often.

But I think it served this function in America, which was to make all of Europe now appear to be beyond the reach of democratic government.

So all of Eurasia suddenly from, you know, it wasn't just Poland and Germany.

Now it was Russia.

And then by May, June of 1940, it would be all of continental Europe except for Britain, was dominated by either fascism or communism.