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Who cares why World War I began?
A couple of months ago, a question, disconnected from anything I was doing or thinking at the time, popped up in my head: “How did we — the U.S., that is — get into World War I?” We all know … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, The Facts of Life, War
Tagged Albania, Archduke Franze Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Montenegro, Morocco, NATO, Ottoman Empire, Romania, Russia, Sarajevo, Serbia, Turkey, World War I, World War II
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What is Trump to Putin? His “shithouse cleaner”
David Cornwell (John Le Carré), a man of supernal intelligence in deep state secrets and spies, inserts a slashing contemporary opinion in his latest novel, Agent Running In The Field. He places this opinion in the mouth of Arkady, a … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Crimea, David Cornwell, Donald Trump, John le Carre, NATO, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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