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I listened to a presentation yesterday by a professor who was an expert on Ukrainian, Russian and Western Politics. The timeline of his lecture was in 2015. He asked the listeners if they remembered or knew about the Cuba incident in the early 60's. He explained how...

On February 24, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis issued a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops defending the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and fortress under siege by the Mexican army. Colonel Travis, in 1935 became a leader of the growing...

Do past historic border wars have any influence? Do you support aid to Ukraine? Is American blood at risk? Should it be? Can the Russian intrusion be compared to American Manifest Destiny of the United States in the 1800's? Is Putin the new Hitler? Is Putin as strong...

When I was a child, I had hundreds and hundreds of plastic soldiers of all sizes and types.  I could play for hours with my toy soldiers.  Setting them up and knocking them down was fun,  I even made my own sounds and noises and sometimes spoke for the soldiers....