A pre-Yalta victory might have allowed the West to take all of Germany (which would not have been inconsequential). But I suspect otherwise the lines would have ended up more or less where they did historically.11B-Mailclerk says: February 14, 2023 at 12:07 pm No one really believed P...
WB: ” You don’t mean to say that it was conservatives that pushed through Australia’s ban on nukes, do you, or Germany’s and Austria’s? ” Does the name “Angela Merkel” ring any bells? With that, I’m adding Germany & Austria to the list of topics on which we’ve ...
Printed out the books for the year (once I figured out how the previous treasurer did them–I am *not* a bookkeeper), put all the meeting minutes on CD, told them how to get resources that I had loaned for group meetings, and calmly and quietly told them I was not going to darken ...
Back when Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters were doing well financially, they often bought US Treasuries, as a way to retain the benefit of their new-found wealth, which they did not want to spend immediately. Similarly, when China was doing well as an exporter, it often bought US Trea...
Putin was just a pretty poor KGB hack from DDR until he latched on to the idea with his best mate Seichin, using energy as a weapon was the best way to get a poverty stricken country noticed when it has nukes but an economy no bigger than that of Italy. Kleptocrats are worse than ...