The Afghan Pullout August 15 2021 Leon Panetta, a longtime Democrat official, lambasted the Biden administration’s execution of the Afghanistan withdrawal, comparing it to the Bay of Pigs invasion by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when U.S.-backed Cuban forces tried to land in Cuba but were rebuffed by the communist regime.
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At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis (John) Metaxas demanding Metaxas to allow the Italian army free passage to occupy strategic sites throughout Greece. What would Metaxas do? Metaxas was expected to quietly acquiesce like Austria had over the phone. He was pro-Hitler and shared many qualities with the Nazi chief: he was a dictatorial thug who abolished freedom in Greece, limited immigration, & banned the Ancient Greek texts from schools because they espoused republicanism. The hand of Fate Yet…
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The Russian-Japanese war ended with a treaty brokered by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on September 5, 1905. The war itself was rather short, lasting from 1904 to 1905. It started when Japan acquired the Laodong Peninsula from China in their fracas, but European powers forced Japan to return it. China then leased it to Russia who was interested because it is an ice-free port, which they could use for supplying good to Siberia and Vladivostok. The history of Port Arthur. In the second century BC Chinese colonists of the Han Dynasty settled in Northern Korea. During the 15th and 16th centuries…
