If someone who fought is perceived as having been honorable, what does that say about someone who was asked to and could have but did not? Vietnam veterans, most of whom entered the military just after leaving high school, had their educational and professional lives interrupted during their m...
Why did the Soviet Union's economy perform better than the United States during the Great Depression given that Communism is an inferior economic model as shown in history? Why was World War II good for the U.S. economy given that wars have historic...
It’s not hard to imagine Reagan’s reaction, remembering his virulent anticommunism and strong support for the Vietnam War and the Nicaraguan Contras. Today, Donald Trump opposes more U.S. aid to Ukraine and boasts that, if elected, he would resolve the conflict in a single day. As Ka...
oppressive government. Marx’s communism specifically prohibited such a ruling class, and modern socialists in the West have made it abundantly clear they support democratic decision-making, not authoritarianism.
Its proximity to Mao Zedong’s China made it critical to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Domino Theory of keeping communism at bay. “If Laos were lost, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow,” Eisenhower told his National Security Council. On the day of his farewell address in 1961, President...
1945-1963 was thus the golden period for the US. Much of the national pride derived from this period. Right after the World War II was the Cold War between the US and the USSR. The clash, according to Lemert however, was less about the ideological division between communism and freedom,...
I was raised with a lot of messaging of the “old America”, where self-reliance was prized, and everyone was constantly encouraged to take the wheel of his own life and “pull himself up by his bootstraps.” I believed this, and did this, to some extent… but I also did not. As...
the country in the future will face fascism. And I am very afraid of this wave, which is now rising. Because it is not only rising against Putin. She rises for the undemocratic future of Russia. It rises for the past communism or for the future fascism. And Navalny is one of the pot...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) got a number of text books prepared with the help of Wahhabi clerics of Saudi Arabia projecting Communism as anti-Islam and calling for jihad against the Communist evil in Afghanistan, had them printed in printing presses in the US and distributed to the...
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