Word: eurasia
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...that damage cannot be repaired, we should be prepared for nationalistic chaos in the middle of Eurasia. The results could make the most feared consequences of German unification seem tame by comparison...
...Soviet Union, the sick man of Eurasia, is in desperate economic shape. It suffers from a mix of mutually exacerbating ailments. What they have in common is their base: the institutionalized absurdity known as communism. A system that radiates orders from the top down destroys initiative on the part of workers and managers, hampering the quantity and quality of production. Government-set and -subsidized prices are kept so low that producers have no incentive to produce, retailers no incentive to sell...
...handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures. But the blessings of a Soviet collapse would certainly be mixed. Just as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I led to Hitler's brutal exploitation of the resulting power vacuum, so the end of the Pax Sovietica in Eurasia might touch off an ethnic bloodbath among the squabbling successor regimes. For University of Alabama historian Hugh Ragsdale, a Soviet collapse would lead to a disastrous "Balkanization" of Eurasia and the emergence of "dozens of Khomeinis . . . skulking incognito among the Sufis and dervishes of the region." The disappearance of Soviet...
This is a small matter next to the chance for peace on earth or a free Eurasia. But it's a matter of immediate practical import. In the past decade the conservative movement remade the face of American politics. Politics must change if conservatives do. And how can conservatives avoid changing once they don't have Karl Marx to kick around anymore...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...