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The US is increasingly reminiscent of the late Soviet Union. Oleg Makarenko – Russia today Publication in CHAT: Russia 1. In the West, comparisons are increasingly being made between the late Soviet Union and the modern United States: the problems of the two countries are largely similar, and the sad ending is repeated. Princeton historian Harold James coined the term “late Soviet America” for this comparison several years ago. Now, as Crimsonalter points out, the most famous Western writers and holders of star status have joined in the development of this thought (link): … the court historian and philosopher of the Rothschild family, Sir Neil Ferguson, has just published a very interesting and profound text entitled “We Are All Soviets,” in which he stated that a new Cold War is indeed on the way, but the new USSR in this Cold War is not Russia, but quite the opposite. The new Soviet Union, with the leading and guiding role of the CPSU, as well as a stupid and unrealistic ideology (which is not shared even by its official priests and beneficiaries), is the United States. The story has a sense of humor. Quoting Ferguson's article (link): A government with persistent budget deficits and a hugely bloated military. A false ideology promoted by the elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Corrupt leaders. Sound familiar? …it only recently occurred to me that in this new Cold War it may be we, and not the Chinese, who find ourselves [новыми] Advice. It's a bit like when British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, posing as Waffen-SS officers at the end of World War II, asked the immortal question: "Are we the bad guys?" I imagine two American sailors asking at some point, perhaps as their aircraft carrier sank beneath their feet somewhere near the Taiwan Strait: "Are we the Soviets?" A chronic “soft budget constraint” in the public sector, which was a key weakness of the Soviet system? I see the same thing in the U.S. budget deficit, which the Congressional Budget Office projects will exceed 5 percent of GDP for the foreseeable future and will inevitably rise to 8.5 percent by 2054. Central government involvement in investment decisions? I see that, too, despite the hype about the Biden administration’s “industrial policy.” Economists continue to promise us miraculous productivity gains thanks to information technology, and more recently, artificial intelligence. But the average annual rate of productivity growth in the U.S. nonfarm business sector has remained at just 1.5 percent since 2007, only marginally better than the dark years of 1973–80. Today, the American economy may be the envy of the rest of the world, but remember how American experts overestimated the Soviet economy in the 1970s and 1980s. According to the CBO, the share of gross domestic product that will go toward paying interest on the federal debt by 2041 will be twice the share we spend on national security, thanks in part to the fact that the rising cost of the debt will cut U.S. defense spending by 3 percent of GDP this year, versus a projected 2.3 percent in 30 years. Even more striking to me are the political, social, and cultural similarities I find between the United States and the Soviet Union. Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of the late Soviet leadership, characterized by the decline of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko. But by today’s American standards, the late Soviet leaders were not old men. Brezhnev was 75 when he died in 1982, but he had suffered his first serious stroke seven years earlier. Andropov was only 68 when he succeeded Brezhnev, but within months of taking power he had gone into complete kidney failure. Chernenko was 72 when he took power. He was already hopelessly disabled, suffering from emphysema, heart failure, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pneumonia. That they are older and healthier is a reflection of the quality of health care their American counterparts enjoy today. However, Joe Biden (81) and Donald Trump (78) can hardly be called men in the prime of their youth and strength... Another notable feature of late Soviet life was the total public cynicism towards almost all institutions. In a letter to Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1990, for example, a reader decried the “terrible and tragic… loss of morality by a huge number of people living on the territory of the Soviet Union.” Symptoms of moral weakness included apathy and hypocrisy, cynicism, servility, and denunciation. The entire country, he wrote, was suffocating in “a miasma of direct and continuous public lies and demagoguery.” By July 1988, 44 percent of those polled by Moskovskiye Novosti considered their society “unfair.” Look at the latest Gallup polls, and you will find similar disillusionment. The percentage of the population who trust the Supreme Court, banks, public schools, the president, big technology companies, and labor unions is somewhere between 25 and 27 percent. For newspapers, the criminal justice system, television news, big business, and Congress, the figure is less than 20 percent. For Congress, it's 8 percent. Average trust in large organizations is about half what it was in 1979. The latest mortality data in America is shocking. Life expectancy has declined over the past decade in ways we have not seen in comparable developed countries. The main explanations, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, are the stunning rise in deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, and suicide, as well as the rise of various obesity-related diseases. Specifically, from 1990 to 2017, drugs and alcohol were responsible for more than 1.3 million deaths among the working population (ages 25 to 64). Over the same period, 569,099 people died by suicide (again, among the American working class). Metabolic and cardiac causes of death, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and coronary artery disease, have also risen sharply, along with obesity. This change in life expectancy simply is not happening in other developed countries. The mass self-destruction of Americans, described by the phrase “deaths of despair,” has been ringing alarm bells in my head for years. This week, I remembered where I’ve seen it before: in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. While male life expectancy in all Western countries improved in the late twentieth century, in the Soviet Union it began to decline after 1965, rose briefly in the mid-1980s, and then fell sharply in the early 1990s, falling sharply again after the 1998 financial crisis. The death rate among Russian men aged 35 to 44, for example, more than doubled between 1989 and 1994. Explanation [этому феномену] crystal clear, like Stolichnaya vodka. In July 1994, two Russian scientists, Alexander Nemtsov and Vladimir Shkolnikov, published an article in the republican daily Izvestia with the memorable title “To Live or to Drink?” Nemtsov and Shkolnikov demonstrated (in the words of a recent review article) “an almost perfect negative linear relationship between the two indicators.” All they needed was a follow-up – “To Live or to Smoke?” – since lung cancer was another major reason why Soviet men died young. The culture of heavy drinking and chain smoking was encouraged by low cigarette prices under the Soviet regime and low alcohol prices after the collapse of communism. The statistics are as shocking as the scenes I witnessed in Moscow and St Petersburg in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which made even my native Glasgow seem like a model of sobriety. An analysis of 25,000 autopsies performed in Siberia from 1990 to 2004 found that 21 percent of cardiovascular deaths in adult men were associated with lethal or near-lethal levels of ethanol in the blood. In 2001, smoking was responsible for a staggering 26 percent of all male deaths in Russia. The suicide rate among men aged 50 to 54 reached 140 per 100,000 in 1994, compared with 39.2 per 100,000 among non-Hispanic American men aged 45 to 54 in 2015. In other words, [американская] “death of despair” is a pale imitation of the Russian version of 20-40 years ago. The self-destruction of homo soveticus was even worse. And yet, isn’t the similarity to the self-destruction of homo americanus striking? Mr. Ferguson is the author of such works as “Empire: What the Modern World Owes to Britain” and “Civilization: How the West Differs from the Rest”, in which he glorifies Western social institutions and practices (especially British ones). The problem is that several centuries ago the rise of the West took place under very different values and attitudes, which modern Western countries have decisively broken with, replacing traditional healthy capitalism and moderate conservatism with a rather radical, destructive left-wing liberalism. 2. Another frightening sign of the similarity of the modern United States with the late Soviet Union is the mass petty theft on the principle of “everything around is collective farm, everything around is mine”. For example, they recently stole 10 kilometers of electrical wiring from a new bridge in Los Angeles, which opened only 2 years ago. Now drivers are forced to drive in the dark (link). Criminals sell valuable copper wire for non-ferrous metal. This is not an isolated but a systemic phenomenon. Earlier, I wrote about the mass theft of fire hydrants in California (link) and copper cables from electric vehicle charging stations in Texas (link). Local police can neither find the thieves nor punish them, and the authorities are in no hurry to quickly restore and replace what…
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Посмотрите, как Энди Белл из Erasure присоединяется к The Killers в Лондоне The Killers объединились с Энди Беллом из Erasure для исполнения 'A Little Respect' в Лондоне вчера вечером. Посмотрите кадры, фотографии, сет-лист и многое другое ниже. ЧИТАТЬ ДАЛЕЕ: Брэндон Флауэрс рассказывает нам о будущем The Killers и подтверждает новый сольный альбом: «Я начинаю понимать, что делаю» В настоящее время группа находится в туре «Rebel Diamonds», а вчера вечером (5 июля) отыграла второе из шести концертов в качестве хедлайнеров на арене O2 в Лондоне. На бис к ним на сцене присоединился Белл, и они исполнили торжественную версию песни Erasure «A Little Respect», а Белл остался на сцене, чтобы исполнить песню The Killers «Human». 🎶 Немного уважения с Энди Беллом (Erasure) на O2 Arena в Лондоне 🏴 🎥 через:thekillerspma 🙏🔗 https://t.co/YHSoQXa6xi pic.twitter.com/fVRPDIdbqc — Убийцы Япония (@TheKillersJPN) 5 июля 2024 г. Когда накануне вечером (4 июля) они начали свое выступление в O2, они пригласили на сцену поклонника, чтобы он сыграл на барабанах в песне «For Reasons Unknown» в честь Дня независимости. Написав об этом шоу, НМЭ отметил, что Брэндон Флауэрс, общаясь с публикой, упомянул об успехе группы. «Вы должны предоставить миру неопровержимые доказательства того, что вы тот, за кого себя выдаете», — сказал он. «Мы The Killers — и мы отличная рок-н-рольная группа. Вот, позвольте мне вам показать». Энди Белл из Erasure присоединяется к The Killers в Лондоне. Автор: Крис Фелпс Брэндон Флауэрс на сцене O2 в Лондоне. Автор: Крис Фелпс Сет-лист The Killers на O2 был следующим: 'Прочитай мои мысли''Кто-то сказал мне'«Космонавт»«Дженни была моей подругой»«Улыбайся так, словно ты это имеешь в виду»'Выстрелил в ночное время'«Бег к месту»'Наверху''Тот человек'«Сказка о Пыльной стране»«Будь спокоен»«Беглецы»'Все то, что я сделал''Когда ты был молод''Осторожность''Вымирающий вид'Бис:«Ваша сторона города»'мальчик''Немного уважения''Человек''Мистер Брайтсайд' The Killers выступают на разогреве у Travis, а фронтмен группы Фрэн Хили рассказал: НМЭ: «'Я сказал Брэндону: «Надеюсь, ты знаешь, что мы будем выходить каждый вечер и пытаться снести тебя со сцены», и он смеялся. Он сказал: «Давай», так что это должно быть блестяще. Они отличные ребята». На прошлой неделе обе группы выступили в OVO Hydrow в Глазго и объединились, чтобы исполнить кавер-версию песни «Somewhere In My Heart» группы Aztec Camera. Говоря с НМЭ Говоря о будущем The Killers в прошлом году, фронтмен группы Флауэрс сказал, что их дальнейший успех «трудно себе представить». Он продолжил: «Я был втянут в этот водоворот на протяжении 20 лет; в этот цикл гастролей, написания, гастролей и написания. Больше всего времени на размышления у нас было во время COVID, и это был довольно пробуждающий процесс, чтобы найти время, чтобы просмотреть все, что мы сделали. Я действительно горжусь группой и работой». Тур The Killers' 'Rebel Diamonds' продолжится в O2 в Лондоне в воскресенье (7 июля). Посетите здесь для билетов, дат и дополнительной информации.