Category: history
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Flash : the Polish foreign affairs spokesman is sacked
after he has suggested that Zelenskyy should apologize for the Ukrainian Nazi crimes during WW2 Łukasz Jasina was spokesman of the foreign affairs ministry, when on May 19, 2023, in an interview with Onet, the main online news platform in Poland, he has replied to a question [Question] Should president Zelenskyy apologize for Volhynia, for…
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Images du jour : un psychodrame français
la vanité nationale trouble la perception de la réalité historique et perpétue une névrose collective Le 28 mai 2023, lors d’un entretien sur Radio J, la première ministre Elisabeth Borne a qualifié le Rassemblement national (RN) d’héritier de Pétain. Deux jours après, c’est le drame, jusqu’en Conseil des ministres. Oui, le Front national (FN) fut…
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[Sharing] After Bakhmut – Douglas Macgregor, The American Conservative
Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power. What comes next? Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well. When…
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Pauvre Sacré Charlemagne
album de famille Le fils de Pépin le Bref s’est retourné deux fois dans sa tombe. Tout d’abord en septembre 1944, lorsqu’une unité de SS français fut nommée Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne [en Français dans le texte]. Ce fut par un décret paru au Journal officiel du 22 juillet 1943 que l’État français permit les…
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Daily pictures : die Verteidigung und Rettung der westlichen Welt
Charlemagne case Late January 1943, when the remnants of Friedrich Paulus’ 6. Armee were about to surrender in Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler spoke about the defense and salvation of the Western world Beside its eternal identity of Nazism birthplace, Germany has always seen objective interests in the east, the Ostgebiete [eastern territories] : subcontracts for its…
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Histoire, en ce jour : LIBÉRATION
Voilà 69 ans, le 7 mai 1954, le Việt Minh et le général Võ Nguyên Giáp écrasent à Ðiện Biên Phủ l’arrogant fantasme français de prolonger le colonialisme. Une victoire militaire sans appel, qui stimulera le soulèvement victorieux de l’Algérie et conduira en 1975, contre les USA, à la libération complète du Viêt Nam
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History, on this day : LIBERATION
69 years ago, on May 7, 1954, the Việt Minh and general Võ Nguyên Giáp crush in Ðiện Biên Phủ the French arrogant fantasy of protracting colonialism. A landslide military victory, which will stimulate the victorious uprising in Algeria and lead in 1975, against the US, to the complete liberation of Viêt Nam
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Ukrainian assassination attempt of Vladimir Putin
two drones attacked the Kremlin last night On May 3, 2023, at 2:27 then 2:43 am, the air defense shoots down two successive drones above the Kremlin. Moscow is more than 450 km northeast of the front line. The UAVs have likely taken off in Russia. Vladimir Putin is not injured, his working schedule remains…
Nicolas Cinquini 