Theresa May (R) and Emmanuel Macron near graves at the World War I French-British memorial of Thiepval, November 9, 2018 © AFP . . . . Our world leaders don't learn the lessons of history: with countries conducting the largest military drills in decades and modernizing its..…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Morocco's King Mohammed VI and his Crown Prince Moulay attend ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of First World War at Arc de Triomphe Paris, France ... ..…
it was in that it was not precipitated by conflict between major powers — unlike the changes ushered in by Thirty Years War, Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II.. ..…
Congress to authorize “a war to end all wars.” . The U.S. entry into World War I abruptly ended a different campaign to end war. ... The U.S. enters World War I . Despite their best efforts, American pacifists were unable either to halt the..…
Not content with the violence inflicted during World War I, humans used the century to decimate human and other life as violence and war raged across the planet with increasingly massive and sophisticated armory. ..…
Issues such and it was no accident that when militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant bulldozed the border post between Syria and Iraq in 2014, they were dismantling the Western boundaries imposed by and after the war... For Europeans, World War I will remain..…
The war of words between President Trump and his French counterpart has heated up again with Trump reminding Emmanuel Macron that if it were not for the US, France would be German speaking nation now... ..…
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk to the ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War I Paris, France, Nov 11, 2018. It was 100 years on Sunday that the traumatic and devastating World War I..…
World War I Homage – A Triumph of Lies and Platitudes . By Finian Cunningham . ... The unilateral, lawless imperialism that engendered World War I and 20 years later World War II is still alive and dangerously vigorous. ..…
Paris hosted massive Sunday to mark the armistice of World War I. The beginning of the century was full of hopes and expectations for mankind. ... First provoking Russian, World War I established the framework of era, with the socialist forces..…
National conceit and military arrogance led to the senseless bloodshed of two world wars, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday at event to mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. ... Despite fierce opposition from the far right, Merkel attended Saturday..…
Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one January 2019.. Over the past weekend, the leaders of the great powers met France to commemorate the official end of World War I. ..…
Instead, it's reminder that Great War and Carthaginian Peace which followed was the incubator for almost all the ills of the next 100 years and not just Stalinist nightmare Russia, Nazi Germany and the holocaust or the long gray night of Cold War during. ... In fact, however, the defeat..…
What was supposed to be a solemn visit to honor the 16 million soldiers who died during World War I alongside a coterie of world leaders in Paris was overshadowed by a mini-scandal surrounding President Trump’s missing an Armistice ceremony at an American military..…
French President Emmanuel Macron during ceremony at Arc de Triomphe Paris on November 11, 2018 as part of commemorations marking the anniversary of November 1918 armistice, ending World War I. ..…
British government's deployment of armed troops against strikers and other protestors was not unusual at the beginning of the century, except after First World War the forces of the state were themselves sometimes revolt. ..…
Macron said, while visiting the World War i battlefield of Verdun. “Faced with a Russia at our frontiers that has shown that she can be a threat, we need a Europe that defends itself better alone, without just depending on the United States.” . ... Many other passages warn of a..…
France needs to protect from Communist China, Russia and the democracy that crossed Atlantic twice over the century to rescue France from two world wars. Last week, President Macron also heaped praise on Marshall Philippe Pétain, World War i French general. ..…