Permanent musical accompaniment: No Surrender (Live) by Bruce Springsteen: [Chorus] Well we made a promise we swore we’d always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender Like soldiers in the winter’s night with a vow to defend No retreat, baby, no surrender Ukraine has its first heroes of this war, the “Magificent 13” who stood their … Read more
Before the official start of World War II, there was a period of appeasement of Germany by the World’s democratic powers. In March 1938, there was the Anschluss, the unification of Germany and Austria (which was against the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I). “On March 12 Germany invaded, and the enthusiasm that followed … Read more
Russia’s useful idiot Donald Trump and his fawning adoration of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin for five years turned a large number of formerly “better dead than red” anti-communist cold warriors into Putin-loving “fellow travelers,” giving Putin a “fifth column” of supporters in the U.S., especially at the Fox propaganda network. The most over-the-top Putin propagandist … Read more
Last week, one of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian buddies (from Trump’s First Impeachment) was sentenced to prison for a campaign finance violation. Giuliani Associate Sentenced To One Year In Prison In Foreign Donor Case: A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine was sentenced to a year and a … Read more
For the first time since the end of World War II in 1945, there may be a major war in Europe over Russian agression in Ukraine. Russia got away with the “annexation”of Crimea in 2014, and Russian-backed militias in the Donbas region of Ukraine waging a civil war in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Earlier this … Read more