The two formed the War and Treaty in 2014 after each had learned to play on their own. “Freaked out,” as he puts it, by the brutal reality of the war in Iraq, Michael would soothe himself by playing a piano his fellow soldiers had found in the basement of ...
Ethnic cleansing, the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical vestiges of
of being insensitive in foreign affairs (he once referred to Mao Zedong as an “old boot,” and on another occasion he toldTodor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian leader, that all Bulgarians were “parasites”), of promising and disbursing too much largesse toThird Worldstates, and so on. Many of ...
No endgame really, simply a unilateral decision to cap the evacuation off at a certain point in time and declare it over no matter who was or was not saved. Ukraine is some yellowed vision of cold war. The Biden plan was based on a Wonka-like act of imagination, that U.S. arms ...
Although the Treaty of Gulistan was signed in 1813, it was only in 1817 that Lieutenant-General Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, commander-in-chief of Russian forces in Georgia, was sent to Tehran to settle the outstanding boundary issues. Numerous accounts, in
“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we ...
Poland, Dantzig, the Corridor….When the terms of the Treaty of Versailles had become known, persons of intelligence had believed that from this bizarre map, from these impacted countries, the next war would one day come. After a thousand diverse feints it was on this vulnerable point that ...
An international treaty, by the way, which has been torpedoed – verifiably – by American political sabotage. What’s really going on here is another brazen case of reality-inversion. Compare with contemporaneous US mendacity towards Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, and ...
What we've learned here is that the artistes on Choice FM could do with a cold shower and a brisk walk, and - I've just realised - I've basically ripped off Baaad Dad from The Adam & Joe Show, not particularly well.Anyway, I've also realised that many of these songs refer to ...
Horatio sounded aghast,"That's a direct violation of the Armistice Treaty!" "Aye,and it'll likely lead to a clan war.'Course,normally that sort of thing wouldn't stand with the King,but it seems like nothing's been right in the kingdom lately." "It's a long way to the Iron ...