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Gilbert Doctorow
Personal blog · gilbertdoctorow.compoliticshistory
Gilbert Doctorow's personal blog at gilbertdoctorow.com covers politics and history. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Gilbert Doctorow's posts on the Donbas front line and Russian political discourse, citing them as support for their points. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
International relations, Russian affairs
What Hacker News says?
Others saying similar: > after eight years of facing down one another across about 200 meters of no-man’s land at the line of demarcation, the situation between Ukrainian armed forces and Donbas forces is very tense and volatile, so that it would be very easy for a provocation staged by British or American special forces, who are known to be in the area, to touch off a major conflagration. https://gilbertdoctorow.co…
Comment linking /2022/02/04/look-at-the-map-where-are-the-ukrainian-military-forces-concentrated-and-where-are-they-absent/
on “Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022”Submitted What the Putin-Biden summit in Geneva is really about as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYep, and the corollary effect of living in a non-democratic country is that the political discourse is far more intelligent, because they're NOT trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Over the past few years I learned Russian and started watching Russian/Ukrainian popular TV and following political writers on all ends of the spectrum. Yes the media environment in Russia is far more authoritarian. But lik…
Comment linking /2022/01/20/anthony-blinken-and-the-intellectual-bankruptcy-of-the-biden-administration/
on “How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics”Submitted Tactical Nuclear Weapons: latest news from Russia as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo. Cultures exist. Races exist. Unique human modes of being exist. One of the most devastating effects of the European Union was the absolute desolation and loss of beautiful cultures in Eastern Europe, such as Croatia and Romania. Entire regions became ghost towns, and major cities became standardized, soulless, faceless blocks. Here's a before/after review from someone who travelled to Dubrovnik, Croatia before i…
Comment linking /2021/09/26/re-visiting-dubrovnik-after-a-30-year-absence-september-2021/
on “Ask HN: Does the world need a “passport equality” movement?”