I have said before that if the current generation of Americans had been around in 1940, we would all be goose-stepping and speaking German today. The “Greatest Generation” today’s Americans decidedly are not. I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of whiners (e.g, anti-vaxxer trucker convoys. Seriously?) There has never been a more selfish, narcissistic, and … Read more
Above: An American recruiting poster during the Spanish Civil War. Update to 1939 Redux: Putin Is Following Hitler’s Playbook, And Risking World War III. I was a bit remiss in recounting Hitler’s pre-war encroachments on his neighbors in Europe. Before this, Hitler’s military machine engaged in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). I saw this reported … Read more
Putin’s initial war plans are a tactical and logistical failure. On Day 7, the Russians are now planning a siege and indiscriminately shelling civilian populations. This is what Putin did when he met with stiff opposition from Chechnyan rebels in 1999. He ordered the complete destruction of Grozny, the capitol of Chechnya. What Putin’s destruction of … Read more
Vladimir Putin “really believed he would be received in Ukraine with flowers” and as a liberator when he launched the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Did Putin somehow confuse Ukraine with the CPAC and America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida? Ukrainians, even Russian-speaking Ukrainians, are not “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans. They are defending their … Read more
Above: h/t Salon.com. Eric Boehlert at Press Run takes the mainstream media to task for its reticence to call out the Republican Party for its radical extremism in embracing Vladimir Putin over American democracy. Stop whitewashing GOP’s Putin worship: American politicians cheerleading a dictator as he sends tanks into a neighboring country and bombs a … Read more