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A Day to Remember

06 Saturday Dec 2025

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        Today is December 7, 2025. We call it a day of Remembrance because that day in 1941 is when the Japanese pulled us into the war by bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The reasons they did are both simple and complex. They are both economic and political.

            As in Europe the roots of World War II started in the early 1930s. With Japan it was the invasion of Manchuria on September 18, 1931 using a fabricated excuse as the reason. The full scale invasion on China started July 7, 1941. FDR thought he could get Japan to stop and pull out by cutting off our exports of oil and steel. It did not work because of the complex reasons.

            The major party in Japan was an ultra-nationalist group who thought Japan should be the dominant power in Asia and the Western Pacific. Their term for the Control of China, Philippines, South East Asia and all the islands was The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which would allow them to steal all the resources and enslave their peoples. The leader of the party finally got complete control of Japan’s Army and Government on October 18, 1941 through coercion and assassination of political opponents. The party saw Japan’s powerful army and navy as more than a match for an isolationist and weak United States. They thought if they declared war, devastated Pearl Harbor and captured Wake Island. FDR would sue for peace. Through a screw-up war was not declared until hours after the attack.

            Adding to the complexity was Japan, Germany and Italy signing the Triparte Pact. It was supposed to be a Mutual Defense Agreement. Germany thought it would keep the United States out of the war but Japan’s attack on us caused Hitler to declare war on the U.S. causing WWII. If Hitler had kept silent we would not have gone into the European War.

History Repeating … Again

24 Monday Nov 2025

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Few people know the importance of March 7, 1936. That was when Adolph Hitler ordered his army to invade the demilitarized area of the Rhineland. The area was a manufacturing area with large coal reserves allowing heavy equipment like tanks, ships and planes to be built. The army chiefs were afraid to do so with their tiny army because they would be crushed by the neighboring countries. Nothing happened telling Hitler he was free to do as he wanted so he started building up his military.

His next target was to the South of Germany. Being Austrian he invaded Austria on March 12, 1938 declaring it a Province of Germany. There was no response from the rest of the World and his agents had worked with the Austrian leaders to allow a peaceful takeover.

Next he wanted Czechoslovakia. The Czechs didn’t want to give him a part of their country. Hitler’s threats to invade created a fear of another war so an agreement was reached on September 30, 1938 between Germany. England. France and Italy giving him the part of Czechoslovakia he wanted. The Munich agreement negotiations did not involve any Czechs. March 12 he got thirty-eight percent of the country including its defensive positions. Later, on March 15, 1939 he invaded and took the rest with little resistance. He declared it a Special Province of Germany.

After signing the Munich Agreement Neville Chamberlain, England’s Prime Minister, declared “Peace In Our Time”. All the appeasing made Hitler think he could take the Eastern half of Poland (Stalin and Hitler had agreed to divide Poland) without any military response from the rest of Europe. He was wrong and war was declared by the allies on September 3, 1939.

Does Putin’s playbook sound just like Hitler’s. He has already incorporated parts or all of other countries so is Ukraine a fighting Czechoslovakia or will it be invading NATO and the Baltic countries causing the next war? He has plans for many countries?

Importance of Allies

20 Tuesday May 2025

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        President Donald J. Trump doesn’t realize the importance of having friendly allies who want to work with the United States to keep mutual enemies at bay. He believes our military to be invincible because of the one-sided history taught in our schools.

            Allied Forces in Western Europe were mostly well led and supplied. The rifles were superior to the bolt action rifles of the German infantryman. However their machine pistols and machine guns were superior to BARS and Thompsons. The Sherman tank was designed to be built faster than the enemy could destroy them. Allied aircraft were superior to the German propeller aircraft. Their jets were game changers and if they had them two years earlier and in sufficient numbers it would have been suicide to fly across the channel. Without air dominance D-Day would not have happened.

            The real reason we were able to land on the Normandy Beaches wasn’t because of items above but because the Russian Stormavik planes, the T-34 tanks, and several million soldiers who kept fighting even when the losses didn’t matter to their leaders. When the D-Day soldiers came ashore two of the divisions they fought against were Ukrainians who had joined to fight the Russians. They were sent west because the German General Staff didn’t trust them and they were kept in secret about what the Germans were doing in the Ukraine. Most of the German army was needed to hold the Russians back from Germany. We didn’t like Stalin but we were allies.

            Without the Russians whittling down and keeping the Germans busy in Eastern Europe Hitler’s Reich might still be in power.

Putin’s Control

10 Monday Mar 2025

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        During President Donald Trump’s first term he was friendly with China’s Xi, North Korea’s Kim, and Russia’s Putin while being irritating and nasty to our allies around the world. Why? I have never heard a good answer from anybody in the White House during his first term or any of his other people since.

            So far in his second term he has played to the far right wing parties in France, Germany, Poland, and others. He repeated every lie Putin has said about the Ukraine and has kept the NATO countries which has supported Ukraine from being involved in trying to create a solution.

            A few Days ago it was announced United States, Russia, and North Korea had voted against a declaration saying Russia was the aggressor. Immediately after Putin said Ukraine’s President was a Dictator. Trump repeated it.

            We know that Trump tried to do business in Moscow but was unable and hurriedly left. One story was he had been involved with an expensive prostitute who was the object of some lurid and disgusting things. Does Putin have videos?

            The CIA, FBI, and European Agencies say Russia was involved in Trump’s win in 2016 and were even more so in 2024 campaign. Putin’s cyber teams were so involved in Poland’s election they had to do another. The United States cyber security people said Russia was blasting the internet’s social sites with lies supporting Trump. People believed and Putin’s puppet got elected. Why does Putin have control over Trump? Think about it and why Musk has so much power to destroy our Security Agencies and USAID Department? Putin clapped when he was told about USAID. Tesla has no involvement in Russia so will this open the doors for Musk and Trump? Was Trump co-opted by the KGB in the 1980’s as two Former Russians have said?

Not Again…

17 Tuesday Sep 2024

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        Donald Trump has often been compared with Adolph Hitler for the way he is able to mesmerize people into doing his will while maintaining a hands-off stance. The January sixth insurrection was a great example. Another is his effort to overthrow the election through the use of his devoted minions. He could have pardoned them all but that would have cast a shadow on his reputation and his innocence.

            However, Trump has now changed historic char actors by explaining how he would end the Russo-Ukrainian War during and interview saying he would force Ukraine to accept a new Eastern Boundary and give Putin 20% of their country. In return the Ukraine would stay neutral and not join any political or economic associations with the West. Maybe the original comparison is right. His stance on Ukraine was the reason for the last assignation attempt.

            Historians know this was much like the “Peace in Our Time” agreement England’s Chamberlain made with Hitler. Hitler had marched his troops into the Rhineland without any interference. Then he wanted about a third of Austria. The Western Powers, England and France agreed to his demands for Peace. Since they were so compliant he didn’t think they had the backbone to go to war over his conquest of Poland.  He invaded on September 1st and the Allies declared war on the third.

            The West must give complete and unrestricted support of the Ukraine. This must put an end to Putin’s quest for conquest. He has gone for one country after another who stood alone with their little militaries and lost parts or all of their countries. The world couldn’t help Poland to survive.  We must help Ukraine. Putin’s next target is Moldavia where he controls about twenty percent already.