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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
23-08-2025The Trump-Putin Summit in Anchora/Alaska delivered nothing. Despite all the flattering of President Trump's ego, peace for Ukraine is further away than ever and Putin still wants the whole piece called the sovereign state of Ukraine. No concessions but continuing senseless destruction and human suffering masterminded by a Russian admirer of Stalin.
Unfortunately, the self-admiring president of the United States, is showing shocking cowardice at the time political courage is most needed. His staff should read (for him) the book Simon Shuster wrote about President Volodymyr Zelensky, called The Sowman. The inside story that made a war leader od Zelensky. William Collins 2024 His courage truly made the difference.
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Footprints of the 20th Century
Footprints of the 20th Century - Third EditionDescription
The peaceful collapse of the Soviet totalitarian, communist system has been a watershed of historic proportions in Europe and the world. In 1989, unexpectedly, Communism and the Cold War were behind us, they were bad and should be forgotten. The immediate post-1989 world presented itself as a new era of organised forgetting, as neither East nor West were interested in examining the prolonged period of acquiescence in absurdities.