He won battles on a scale no one else even dreamed of: He developed all the tactics of urban combat war from scratch. He destroyed
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Was the 1945 Yalta Conference a Mirage?
The relatively smooth waters of cooperation between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta concealed roiling cross currents beneath the glistening surface which some historians like
Pakistan-Afghanistan, Washington’s Managed Chaos Backfired (2012-Vital)
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. …Francisco José de Goya Afghanistan is in dire straits due
A New Year’s Fantasy
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind– Edward Gibbon Counterfactual history is generally a waste of
Putin Reminds the West: Those Who Ignore History Are Doomed to Repeat it
President Putin recently stirred up a hornets nest by reminding the western nations of their own complicity in supporting the rise of Nazism long before
From Colluding With Hitler Against the USSR to an Anti-Hitler Coalition
“That the Russian armies should stand on this line was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia” On the eve of the Second World War,
Capitalism’s Suicidal Trajectory
If we make it out of the climate emergency, we may come to view the few decades usually described simply as the Cold War that
Did the Fall of the Berlin Wall Produce the Trump Presidency?
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago. It was one of the few unambiguously joyous moments in modern history. This popular, nonviolent explosion of dissent
