PoliSci Nerd Freakout
An International Relations student's scrapbook. Over the course of reading and writing and researching, and just plain living I discover all kinds of interesting facts and figures and quotations that I'll never end up using in a report or a presentation. This is my place to share them. I hope you like it. I'll also probably share random shit I find interesting like kittens or game of thrones, potential followers have been warned.
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All politics aside, can we all agree the Soviet Union had an awesome national anthem?
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Got my new Amazon order. Finally some more political science! Most of the non fiction I’ve been reading these days are works of journalism or history. It’ll be nice to read something with a solid backing in theory.
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Photo reblogged from
FUCKING FUCKER (pardon my french ladies!)
Strangely enough this is the exact same message Romney had delivered to Putin by his son.
But while in Moscow, Mr. Romney told a Russian known to be able to deliver messages to Mr. Putin that despite the campaign rhetoric, his father wants good relations if he becomes president
(Source: liberals-are-so-strange)
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The war on terrorism gave these regimes cover to build up their security services and clamp down on opposition. China, Russia, and the United States colluded with Central Asian security services to render terrorist suspects, without due process hearings, to and from the region. The United States claimed that the war on terrorism could not be constrained by international law.
Alexander Cooly - The New Great Game in Central Asia - Foreign Affairs
- Fuck you again George Bush. How long are we going to be cleaning up the mess your administration left behind?
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Photo reblogged from Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast
fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:
I thought everyone knew about Mutually Assured Destruction.
This happens ALL THE TIME.
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Link reblogged from Its all just a ride!
I watched this last night and i noticed a few things.
In it they tried to say that the iraq war “mistake” was solely down to one iraqi informant “curveball”, who appeared on the program and confessed everything he said was a lie. Can you really believe that the U.N and NATO made their decision on…
Neither NATO nor the U.N. invaded iraq, so maybe that actually shows that they’re more credulous than you take them for. As for Cuveball’s effects on the US, he hardly caused the war just enabled. It wasn’t that he was a good lier, it was that he was telling them what they wanted to hear. As far as a post cold war treaty on spies I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about, please elaborate which treaty you’re talking about.
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And cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desks in an air raid drillBilly Joel - Lenningrad -
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?Sting - Russians
