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How America Suffered Its Worst Military Defeat in History

MacArthur's blunders sped up the defeat of a force that was probably doomed from the start but faced a much weaker and less numerous enemy than usually imagined

William Strook 13 Jun 21 1867 3

Forced Vaccinations, Face Masks, Cities Washed in Poisons — The Maoist Anti-Germ Frenzy of of 1952

Forget Wuhan, the Virus Maoism that western lockdown COVID Rouge has imported is of a much older vintage

Frank Dikötter 27 Apr 21 4652 9

Why Was It OK for Ukraine to Break Away from the USSR, but Not for Crimea to Break Away from Ukraine?

"At the time, it seemed as if pretty much anyone could declare independence from Moscow. But nobody could declare independence from Ukraine. Or else."

Peter Hitchens 22 Apr 21 2042 9

In 1945, the US Quietly Handed Over 150 Warships to the USSR and Trained 12,000 of Its Sailors to Invade Japan

"Predictably, language barriers proved a major challenge...The Americans and Soviets by all accounts got along well though"

Sebastien Roblin 18 Apr 21 1583 3

History

The East German STASI and the Polish Communist Secret Service Distrusted and Detested Each Other

Cute. German-Polish animosities even Communist internationalism could not fix

Deutsche Welle 17 Apr 21 624 1

History

The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis Almost No One Knows About

Whether there would be a nuclear WW3 or not hinged on "dehydrated, harassed men trapped in a fragile metal box under the surface of the ocean"

Sebastien Roblin 29 Mar 21 1220 2

History

Neocon Hero Churchill Was Twice as Evil as Kissinger Only Dumber and Into “Aryan Stock” Talk

The colonial secretary, Leo Amery, remarked: “On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane … I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.”

Priyamvada Gopal 27 Mar 21 2706 15

History

How Russia Helped Deter an Anglo-French Invasion of the US

Kept them from interfering in America's civil war

Byron King 5 Sep 20 2180 3

History

How Come It Was Japan That Was Defeated in WWII, but Korea That Was Partitioned by the Victors?

Japan laid down arms quickly enough to prevent its own division but not that of its Korean colony

Chung Byung-ho 26 Aug 20 1321 6

History

Hiroshima Bombing Was the Culmination of the Anglo-American Race War on Japan

Nazi Germany was never considered as a target, the bomb was always meant for the use in what to US and Britain was a race war

Mick Hume 6 Aug 20 2393 8

History

Americans in Vietnam — Tax Collectors for the Landlord Class

“When asked if he would have destroyed the village had he been flying an F-105 supersonic fighter-bomber, Hildreth replied coolly, Yes, [because] you don’t see the people.’”

Dave Martin 20 Jun 20 1211 9

History

How the Soldier’s Revolt Ended the Vietnam War

"The army reported 126 fraggings in 1969, 271 in 1970 and 333 in 1971, when they stopped keeping count"

Joel Geier 13 Jun 20 5420 26

Covid Stone AgeHistory

Bank of England Is Predicting the Biggest Contraction Since the 1709 ‘Great Frost,’ Here Is What Happened Then

Seas froze over

Juan Arreseigor 10 May 20 1761 11

History

In WWII 3 out of 4 German KIA Were by Soviet Army

4.3 million Axis troops, including 3.55 million Germans fell in the east. And 7.5 million Soviets

Marko Marjanović 9 May 20 1742 9

History

How Moscow Did Everything It Could to Spare America Its Vietnam Quagmire

Soviets only got involved after the US had done so first, and after years of trying to hold the Vietnamese back, even at the cost of losing nearly all influence in Hanoi to China

Marko Marjanović 18 Mar 20 1882 16

100,000 Women, Children and Men Too Old to Fight Were Burned Alive in Six Hours of March 10, 1945

"You could smell...burning flesh in the airplane", "You could see flames...100 miles away"

John Ismay 9 Mar 20 4045 58

Our Benevolent Empire

US Dug Up 130 Tons of Irradiated Soil From Nevada and Dumped It on the Marshall Islands

Now the protective dome is failing, but the US is refusing to help saying its their problem now

Susanne Rust 25 Feb 20 1636 7

RT Amplifies Western Disinformation on Rwanda

"The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door for far greater attrocities in the Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet"

Ann Garrison 1 Jan 20 1476 3

From the Archive

The US Used Biological Warfare Against Mainland China in the 1950s

And against North Korea. We're talking anthrax, plague, and cholera in experimental attacks on civilians

Jeffrey S. Kaye 30 Dec 19 6374 24

War Criminals With Staying Power

Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese Soldier Who Gave Up the “Fight”…in 1974

Busied himself with hacking local peasants to death until found and formally ordered to stand down

Rare Historical Photos 28 Dec 19 1714 16

Our Benevolent Empire

Operation Just Because: 30 Years Ago Panama Invasion Ushered in the Regime-Change Era

A war against a CIA asset that packed thousands of civilians into mass graves

Greg Grandin 24 Dec 19 1111 13

History

The 130,000 Syrians Israel Expelled From the Golan Heights in 1967 Have Been Completely Erased From History

The 130,00 Sunni Muslims were expelled, and only 7,000 Druze allowed to remain

Irit Gal 19 Dec 19 2443 45

Stinger Missiles Forced the Soviets out of Afghanistan and Other Ludicrous Myths

Such as that it was the US-backed Mujahedeen, rather than the US-backed Yeltsin, who smashed the government the Soviets had left behind

Jonathan Steele 15 Dec 19 2178 6

History

Meet American Empire’s “Doctor Death”, the CIA’s Own Joseph Mengele

"Sidney Gottlieb never became a household name, mostly because he never paid for his crimes"

Kelley Vlahos 13 Dec 19 3636 9

History

Napalm: The Signature Weapon of the American Empire

The single biggest one-night massacre of civilians in history was carried out at the fraction of the cost of an atomic bombing

Robert Barsocchini 10 Dec 19 5663 30

From the Archive

When Russian Troops Were This Close to American Border the US Went Into a Meltdown

Yet today US insists American troops on Russia's borders are no cause for concern and really none of Moscow's business

Richard Purcell 10 Dec 19 2781 3

From the Archive

Western Allies Killed More Innocents in 1941-1945 Than Butcher Stalin Did

4 million to Stalin's 2 million. The only reason we think of them as moral is because the Nazis were even far worse

Marko Marjanović 8 Dec 19 1805 5

From the Archive

How US Made Russia the World Leader in Air Defense

Facing an adversary with a vast air fleet and an inclination to level cities Soviets had no choice but pour enormous energies into countermeasures

Marko Marjanović 8 Dec 19 13385 12

History

The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The Soviet Struggle vs Israel in the War of Attrition

The Soviets played a far more direct, long-lived and impactful role in the notionally Egyptian-Israeli struggle than is generally understood

Michael Weaver 28 Nov 19 1378 1

History

North Korea Fought Americans With Russian Biplanes From the 1920s

And with considerable success as well

Sebastien Roblin 23 Nov 19 975 1

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