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By September of this year, if not earlier, we are really going to see the howlings of MAGA as it gets so much worse.....SO MUCH WORSE....... prices are going to shock us all. We have a small window to get ready, use it very wisely is my advice. ALL the geopoliticians, pundits, economists, psychologists are saying we just are not ready for whats about to hit us in the face. ALL t...

I will absolutely be watching this from the comfort of my couch. I’m curious to see how the director handled Michael’s controversial Bowie phase.

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One of my colleagues says you need to “kill their god” in order to declare permanent victory. Like Hirohito and the Nazi ideology.

It’s an oversimplified metaphor, but essentially he means victory requires defeating not only an enemy’s military forces but also the source of legitimacy that drives resistance.

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Briefly, I think it could be said that Germany and Japan were successful “occupations,” while Iraq and Afghanistan were not.

Several factors could explain the differences: existing governmental organization—we essentially eliminated internal control structures in Iraq—and occupying force size being among them.

In planning, we talk about “winning the peace.” If Ira...

Let us not forget the earlier German occupation of Czechoslovakia and Poland … .Significant additions to the list. My knowledge of history in general is narrow and spotty, but I keep forgetting even what I did once know about Eastern Europe, despite having visited parts of it. It’s a weird blind spot in my mind.

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