Without a doubt, abandoning Rojava to its own – terrible – fate after the SDF and YPG have been praised as having “defeated the Islamic State” is just as counterproductive as it is immoral and wrong, but this isn’t enough to explain why there is so much indignation currently. The YP...
The Soviet Union had managed the eastern front of the World War II battle theater, and as the Red Army beat back Germany, set up its own occupation of formerly German-occupied states like Poland and Czechoslovakia. And rather than relinquish these nations at the close of the war,the Soviet ...
the Romans invented the computer. There’s more to invention than merely a single act of “I made this.” To pull humans into modernity there must be tolerance (yes, you heard that) even if no reward for the maker, and also a way to propagate the invention) but it never took. ...
What would happen if I lived in a house with a nuclear bunker, and the doors were like the blast doors that you see in the movies, and they were impractical to break down? Would “Sorry I’ve lost the key” be an offense then? Does the law require you to open locked doors if the...
“fifth columns”, the German minorities in Germany’s neighboring countries. Yet those commentators tended to down-volume the fact that the inter-war minorities’ protection system was also not universal at all. It applied only to some of the defeated or the newly created states. The system ...
example, it is doubtful he would have waited for Hitler to awaken late on the morning of June 6 to request permission to move the panzer reserves to the beaches. Moreover, even good plans go awry and each of these and other factors singly, or collectively, could have defeated the ...
”…but must take place simultaneously in all civilized countries―that is to say, at least in England, America, France, and Germany. It will develop in each of these countries more or less rapidly, according as one country or the other has a more developed industry, greater wealth, a mor...
In recent history, attempts to establish a new world domination are associated with the names of Hitler and Stalin. On the eve of the election of 1932 Adolf Hitler addressed to the people of Germany, literally with these words: "If you elect me as leader of this nation,...
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After the Nazis were defeated, Ukraine again became part of the Soviet Union, and remained so until its independence in 1991. But Russian pressure remains. Moscow considers Ukraine within its sphere of influence. President Vladimir Putin would like to see Ukraine become a member of his Collective...