Byron York: Ten questions for James Comey Washington Examiner
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Netanyahu, Gantz, Gallant – Google Search https://t.co/mHyruMy5M2 pic.twitter.com/Pq3om6fIoh
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) March 6, 2024
In 1920, a perceptive British correspondent titled a book he’d just written about the conflict that had so recently laid waste to much of Europe, The First World War. And indeed, there was plenty of evidence that the stones had been laid for yet another global conflagration. Germany, carved up by the victorious allies in the Treaty of Versailles, was descending into political and economic chaos under the humiliating defeat and impending weight of war reparations. In Italy, Benito Mussolini’s fascists were terrorizing towns and beating up labor leaders. In Russia, the Bolsheviks were mopping up Western-supported forces in its civil war, even as Ukraine declared its independence. In Paris, meanwhile, the League of Nations gathered for its inaugural session—without the participation of the U.S., the world’s foremost industrial nation, thereby virtually dooming it to irrelevance.
Americans, repulsed by the meaningless horrors of trench warfare, wanted to rid themselves of Europe’s endless internecine barbarism. Barrelling into the 1930s, the so-called “waves of the future”—Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism and German National Socialism—seemed only a prelude to something worse on the continent. In Japan, the wreckage of Europe’s colonial powers gave the emperor’s militarists the confidence that they had a free hand in the Far East, starting with China.
This sweep of history is addressed superbly by historian Mark Stout in World War I and the Foundation of American Intelligence. He offers not only a profound work of scholarship that illuminates the origins of today’s U.S. intelligence community, but he puts this larger canvas to good use to reveal much that’s generally unknown about America’s rise to global primacy.
Macron hits the nail on the head. Putin, the instigator of baseless war and chronic offender against international law, thrives on chaos and division. His defeat in Ukraine is non-negotiable. Recognizing him as Russia’s legitimate leader post-sham elections should be out of the… https://t.co/F1x1Kfuroh
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) March 5, 2024
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Ernst Leitz, head of Leica cameras, smuggled hundreds of his Jewish employees out of Germany during WWII. Each was issued a Leica camera that could be easily sold if things went bad. Many ended up in NYC at the Fifth Ave Leica showroom pic.twitter.com/pqlDz8t3b7— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) March 6, 2024
Over a decade ago, the CIA helped Ukraine set up 12 ‘spy bases’- now, they’re providing crucial intel amidst Russia’s ongoing offensive. A testament to the power of collaboration. #CIA #Ukraine #spybases #usahttps://t.co/hnzpBXdC36 pic.twitter.com/DCjGxHHmER
— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) March 5, 2024
Gantz and Gallant have both realized that the only way of getting anything done is to act as if Netanyahu has no power over them. And it turns out that he hasn’t / @AnshelPfeffer https://t.co/IcvcKXvvSn
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 6, 2024
hezbollah attack on israel – Google Search https://t.co/ytLdldFjz2 – https://t.co/r0trBwv4an
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) March 6, 2024
Live update: Hamas appears to reject Israeli truce proposal, says it will continue negotiating https://t.co/iv7KCPnNXs
— ToI ALERTS (@TOIAlerts) March 6, 2024
After accusations of anti-Israel bias, the BBC has decided to join as a co-producer of the documentary film “We Will Dance Again,” which will recount the events of the Nova Festival massacre / @niritandhttps://t.co/kJRetD4JXR
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 6, 2024