Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine When it Did? It all could have come down to Russia’s resources at that moment, Pomeranz said at the time. It might have been the “most opportune time” from Putin’s perspective, he added, because the country had $600 billion in foreign currency reserves ...
Why was Japan angered by the Treaty of Shimonoseki? Why was the Taira clan hated in Japan? Why were many Japanese leaders against unconditional surrender? Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria? Why did Japan want to seize the Pacific islands?
Why did Kublai Khan start the Yuan dynasty? Why did Japan invade China in 1937? Why did Kublai Khan's reign succeed? Why did the Mongol invasions of Japan fail? Why did Japan want to take over China and other places in Asia in the 20th century?
And you also haven’t noticed that the very people who are the object of my criticism in these recent posts describe the Jews as an enemy people who should be expelled from this country and all countries. Meaning, they don’t want the Jews to exist here, and they don’t want Israel t...
found out who had taken the uranium, the government chose to do nothing about it. Other people feel the U.S. probably let Israel take the uranium and setup the "raid" to provide an excuse for deniability. Either way, you may want to remain close allies with every country you can that...
Lots of cool mechanics are easier to justify if you simply say that the gods did it: Rifts between worlds, conflicts between creatures, planets bashing into one another, mindless aggressive things that it is completely OK to kill. If the devs want to do it, they need only invent some ...
The outbreak of Ebola fever in west Africa has been making headlines since January this year, but as usual we are only being told half the story by mainstream media. It took a lot of digging by myself and colleagues in the blogosphere to dig up this pile
islands with any harbor/base potential were seized and kept by the US after the war. Moreover, by the 50’s there was a chain of US bases stretching from Japan Mainland, South Korea, Okinawa, Guam, and the Philippines. Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia being allies and part of the chain...
financial planning they did around that number they were promised was somehow rendered useless, I wish I could go back in a time machine and warn everyone that George Santayana was right: those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it, or worse, allow it to be repeated by ...
Politicians want to get re-elected. They want citizens to think that everything is OK. If there are energy supply problems, they need to be framed as being temporary, perhaps related to the war in Ukraine. Alternatively, any issue that arises will be discussed as if it can...