Университетское переводоведение

Tucker Carlson about escalation

Voats — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:02:04 GMT

Tucker Carlson has repeatedly claimed that U.S. and NATO policies in Ukraine are pushing the world toward a global or nuclear conflict, arguing that Washington's strategy has effectively initiated a dangerous proxy war with Russia.

Carlson's Arguments

Escalation Risks: He asserts that U.S. support and military actions deep inside Russia bring the world closer to a major war.

Proxy War: He views Ukraine as a battlefield used by Washington to confront Moscow rather than protect American interests.

Dismissal of NATO Threats: He has claimed that warnings of further Russian aggression are exaggerated narratives used by Western leaders to intimidate their own populations.

Jack London and Martin Eden

Voats — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:35:28 GMT

Martin Eden and the Catastrophe of Self-Creation

No modern novel captures the danger of radical self-creation more powerfully than Jack London's Martin Eden.

Martin, a self-educated sailor determined to become a writer, constructs himself through extraordinary force of will. He reads, studies, writes, suffers rejection, and refuses to accept the identity assigned to him by his social environment.

His ambition is admirable.

It is also dangerous.

Martin's entire identity becomes dependent upon self-creation. He believes that if he can make himself into the person he imagines, the world will eventually recognize him.

It does.

And that recognition destroys him.

When success finally arrives, Martin discovers that society is not really interested in the person he has become. The same people who rejected him now praise him because he is famous. His public identity becomes detached from his private self.

The tragedy is not simply that society was hypocritical. It is that Martin had invested so much of himself in defeating society's judgement that, once he had won, he no longer knew what the victory was worth.

His self-created identity has become a prison.

London makes the irony particularly cruel. The author who created Martin Eden died only a few years after the novel's publication. His death has encouraged generations of readers to interpret the novel autobiographically, although Martin cannot simply be reduced to a portrait of London.

The temptation is nevertheless irresistible.

We read the novel and then look at the author's life.

The boundary between fiction and self-explanation begins to dissolve.

Marshak's translation of R. Kipling's "I keep Six Honest Serving Men"

Voats — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:06:02 GMT

Редьярд Киплинг «Есть у меня шестёрка слуг...»

Есть у меня шестёрка слуг, Проворных, удалых. И всё, что вижу я вокруг, — Всё знаю я от них.

Они по знаку моему Являются в нужде. Зовут их: Как и Почему, Кто, Что, Когда и Где.

Я по морям и по лесам Гоняю верных слуг. Потом работаю я сам, А им даю досуг.

Даю им отдых от забот — Пускай не устают. Они прожорливый народ — Пускай едят и пьют.

Но у меня есть милый друг, Особа юных лет. Ей служат сотни тысяч слуг, — И всем покоя нет!

Она гоняет, как собак, В ненастье, дождь и тьму Пять тысяч Где, семь тысяч Как, Сто тысяч Почему!

Перевод С.Маршака

The literature of Farewell

Voats — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:43:47 GMT

To summarize one's life is inevitably to place oneself at the center of the narrative. One becomes simultaneously the protagonist, the witness, and the judge. The temptation to blow one's own horn is therefore built into the enterprise.

Religious and literary traditions have long warned against self-praise. Yet silence carries its own terror. If a person does not attempt to speak for himself, who will? Memory is selective, history is written by others, and the dead cannot correct the record.

This tension lies at the heart of the literature of farewell: the memoir, the artistic testament, the autobiography, the concluding meditation. Such works do not merely summarize a life. They expose the unstable boundary between self-knowledge and self-justification.

Loomer - the 9/11 attacks an “inside job,”

Voats — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:21:54 GMT

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the comments “repugnant” when questioned about them during the daily briefing.

“No leader should ever associate with someone who spreads this kind of ugliness. This kind of racist poison, that’s what this is,” Jean-Pierre said.

“Exactly the kind of hateful, decisive rhetoric that we should denounce. And should not be part of the fabric of this country. It doesn’t matter your political views, you should stand and condemn … these types of just repugnant, repugnant words,” she added.

Loomer also previously called the 9/11 attacks an “inside job,” which Jean-Pierre brought up Thursday in her rebuke of former President Trump’s ally.

“No leader should be connected to that or spreading that,” she said.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R), an ally of Trump, also criticized Loomer for the comments on Harris.

Greene said Loomer’s comment “does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever.”

Greene and Loomer have since been in an intense back-and-forth on social platform X, with Loomer calling Greene a “raging antisemite” and defending her initial post as a “funny joke about Kamala Harris” using “her Indian mom as a way to dodge questions.”

Zelensky controls corruption in the Ukraine

Voats — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:41:16 GMT

In a sparsely furnished four-room apartment on the 18th floor of 9a Hrushevskoho Street, Kyiv, several well-connected businessmen are discussing deals involving some of Ukraine’s most powerful politicians and officials. Meanwhile, anti-corruption investigators are listening in via a concealed bug. The contents of the 1,000 hours of conversation that they record are shocking. They reveal large-scale war profiteering among President Zelensky’s inner circle. In one case concerning the state nuclear company, Energoatom, contractors were forced to pay an extra 10-15 percent in kickbacks in order to avoid contracts being blocked or cancelled.

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-corruption-could-bring-down-zelensky/

Maugham's Summing Up

Voats — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:06:01 GMT

Maugham and the Art of Controlled Modesty

W. Somerset Maugham understood this danger perfectly.

His The Summing Up (1938) remains one of the most elegant examples of late-life self-accounting precisely because of its restraint. Maugham avoids grand declarations. Instead, he adopts the tone of a craftsman calmly examining his own tools.

“I have never pretended to be anything but a story-teller.”

The sentence appears modest, yet its modesty is strategic. By refusing the mantle of prophet or philosopher, Maugham quietly strengthens his authority. He lowers his voice in order to sound more convincing.

Later he remarks:

“I have been amused by the diversity of opinion that people have had of my work.”

The word “amused” carries a delicate superiority. Praise and criticism alike have become distant to him now, observed from the elevated calm of someone nearing the end of his journey.

And finally comes the sentence that gives the book its peculiar dignity:

“I have done what I have done, and that is that.”

It sounds almost casual. In reality it is a declaration of closure — modest in form, final in spirit.

Farewell Literature

Voats — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:12:27 GMT

Blowing One’s Horn at Sunset

Why Great Writers Feel Compelled to Explain Themselves at the End

By Vladimir Ovsiannikov

Frank Sinatra reportedly disliked performing My Way, the song audiences demanded from him more than any other. Its triumphant refrain — “I did it my way” — struck him as self-congratulatory, almost vulgar in its pride. Yet the song endured because it expressed something many people feel near the end of life: the desire to shape experience into a final statement.

There comes a moment when a person feels compelled to explain himself — to draw a line beneath the ledger of living and pronounce some kind of verdict on what it all meant. The impulse is ancient. But it contains a moral danger. To summarize one’s life is, inevitably, to place oneself at the center of the narrative. One must, in effect, blow one’s own horn.

Religious and literary traditions alike warn against doing so too loudly. Yet silence carries its own terror. If a person does not attempt to speak for himself, who will?

This tension lies at the heart of the literature of farewell: the memoir, the artistic testament, the concluding meditation. Such works do not merely summarize a life. They expose the unstable boundary between self-knowledge and self-justification.

Trump changes his mind

Voats — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:08:27 GMT

Douglas Macgregor on Glenn Diesen’s YouTube channel:

"Zelenskyy expressed a desire to license the production of Patriot missiles in Ukraine—something that will never happen. By the time that could possibly take place, Ukraine, in my assessment, will no longer exist. Trump humored all this nonsense, and then simply dismissed the idea."

The phrase “terminal autonomy”

Voats — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:11:42 GMT

A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US defence company in the conflict.

Terminal Autonomy makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company.

The phrase “terminal autonomy” refers to the final phase of a kamikaze drone’s attack in which AI takes over control of the weapon after the defending force jams radio waves or mobile service.

Предприятие Terminal Autonomy выпускает высокоточные БПЛА для нанесения ударов в глубине обороны противника. Они оснащены системами наведения, способными противостоять российским средствам РЭБ, сообщил источник, знакомый с деятельностью компании.

Выражение "terminal autonomy" означает завершающую фазу атаки беспилотника-камикадзе, когда после подавления радиоволн или сотовой связи силами обороны управление оружием переходит к ИИ.