You're both wrong. Stalin didn't have anything to do with it. The decision was purely military. Eisenhower didn't like Churchill's plan for...
You never paid proper reparations for the Nazi butchery at all. What you did is got the biggest bailout in history: the Marshall Plan. First you...
And the Boomers voted for the biggest jackass, Trump. Actually it doesn't take much to tilt an election. The Boomers did change outcomes as they...
They began voting when they were 18 or 21 depending on when they were born. In the late 1960s they were a big force in getting Johnson out...
I quit listening. This guy on a nice motorcycle has only interfaced with the middle class in the USA. I was born during World War II before the...
The economy in China is like a Formula 1 race car. The driver and crew make adjustments as needed to gain optimum performance. In the USA the...
You are correct. Most learned military historians in the United States have the same opinion. The only real argument is whether the Battle of...
The Frankfurt bankers were clueless. They were fools to buy the Greek bonds. Also you keep on Greece and have given no reason to not have a...
Why not have Northern Europe and Southern Europe use different currencies then? Let France decide what it wants to use. This has been my...
Go read the articles about 2012 in "Foreign Affairs". Look at southern European countries versus Germany.
Actually well read on both the news and the academic literature on the euro and Germany.
Yes, they were air conditioned. I remember that on the eastbound trips there was a several hour time when we were cut from the Super Chief and...
The Democratic Party which has abandoned workers and the poor for 50 years. Democrats = Republicans concerning income and wealth inequality.
The German high command ignored its own G4 (logistics). Basically what transpired was exactly what the German G4 predicted. But they were...
True, you are correct. Germans are way overrated. And they are 0 for 2 when it comes to world wars. The EU's problems would be far fewer if...
When I was very little we rode the Super Chief several times. It was around 1950. We went between Arizona and New York. In Chicago the Pullman...
It was barely in the pipeline when the Battle of Stalingrad took place.
People need to get real. The USA has become a second rate power that isn't even in the rail technology race. It may even be losing the...
Few historians think the atomic bombing was needed to end the war with Japan. What is astounding is that few Americans realize the Battle of...
This is the first comment based on fact that I've read while going through the list. Most posts differ from what scholars at places such as the...
The Democratic Party establishment has joined the Republicans in creating a huge increase in income and wealth inequality during the last 50...
Good. Life was nicer in the 1950's with dial phones and only about 180 million people in the USA. The US government should have spent the last...
If the police want to have an officer on a campus to act as a SWAT member, they should rotate people through the active SWAT team as part of their...
So many candidates are just wetting their finger, holding it up, and seeing which way the wind is blowing. I personally would like to see in 2020...
Thanks for posting. All the images of newspaper headlines are great. Well worth going through all the comments.
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