Ambassador WB Smith encouraged Stalin to believe Iranian oil would be his if he withdrew troops from Iran. give Putin Chinese oil if he leaves Ukraine

[basquebromance]

As you know Trump has been saying that he would end the Ukraine War if elected president. Well, he has finally explained how he will accomplish this amazing feat with a genius plan: “You have to knock heads and you have to get it done. That would mean saying things to Putin and saying things to Zelensky that they’re not gonna want to hear and getting them into a room and getting it done.” I wonder if this will be before or after he says he “fell in love” with Putin again and that his call to extort Zelensky was “perfect”. How the hell do people take this guy seriously?

the right way to do it is to trick Putin into believing he is getting what he wants, then pull the old SWITCHEROO bait and switch on him

Stalin’s postwar border-making tactics

While Stalin changed the internal geography of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, until 1939, there were few opportunities to move international borders. But by the time World War Two came to...

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[basquebromance]

Is Russia threatening to bomb us with nuclear weapons? NO. Is China? No. Is North Korea YES. WW2 Hitler wanted to invade us all FDR and Churchill joined up with Stalin, and all of us TOGETHER beat him.