“Peace in our times.”
Neville Chamberlain (September 30, 1938)
Russian president Vladmir Putin, arrived at the Anchorage summit with President Trump with no intention of entertaining a “cease fire”; convinced his easily-manipulated counterpart could be pressured to convince President Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s conditions for a peace agreement.
Rather than following through on …
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“I’ve noticed nearly all the dead were hardly more than boys.”
Grantland Rice
The fiftieth anniversary of D-Day and the allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe provides a useful benchmark from which to reflect on contemporary history.
From hundreds of recent interviews with veterans who waded ashore at Normandy in June, 1944, it’s …