Trying to remember a name.

[solarbird]

Need a little help.

In the late 1990s, a Russian ultra-rightist political theorist was going on about how the US was about as ripe for being pulled apart as the USSR had been, with the fault lines being racism and the lever being white racism in particular. I noted it at the time, discussed it with some people...

...but I can't remember his name to save my life.

Anybody?

eta: I think it was Igor Panarin.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

I believe that you are correct.

You and I were not acquainted at the time, but he was one of the people that my group of industrial planners were talking about during the development of the Makeevka project (in the context of financial capacity of Ukraine, since it was difficult to acquire London financing for projects in the former Soviet states, and nobody in Kiev nor Moscow were willing to write blank cheques to foreigners, no matter how long-experienced).

In the end, we put the money into the project at Glynneath instead. It had its own problems, but there was at least an integrated financial system in place (plus London wasn't that far away by train), and there wasn't the leftover Cold War mistrust.

Looking back on it, I think we were nuts to even think we could survive applying risk capital to anything in the FSU.

[solarbird]

So much lost opportunity. I truly mean that.

[maellenkleth]

Besides which, I thought the Panarin map had Russian zone of control extending along the Coast Range of B.C. including all the islands of Salishaan and Haida Gwaii. Canada didn't get a coastal outlet on that side, at all.

[solarbird]

Not in the maps reproduced on Wikipedia. Russia gets Alaska, but not BC. Canada gets the upper- and central midwest, in fact. Parts of the west, too.

We're supposed to end up in China's sphere of influence as part of the Republic of California, but I'm pretty sure we'd end up tying north, not south. Could be wrong though.