Tag: War
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Russia and Ukraine- Where is it goiing?
It’s crazy how fast the world can change. While the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week was not a surprise, I still find it surreal that there was relative peace over there a few days ago. Like so many, I’m struck by the senselessness of it all. Russia has invaded another sovereign nation in an…
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75th anniversary of D-Day
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. Over 150,000 Allied forces took part in the invasion. Over a million men were part of the overall battle of Normandy. Thousands of ships and planes. Even trying to fathom the size of the operation is impossible to comprehend. A lot of our mental images of…
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100th anniversary of the end of World War I: 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
At this hour, a century ago, the First World War ended. They called it “The War to End All Wars.” But sadly, a generation later, the world would be embroiled in an even bigger, even more deadly, even more catastrophic war. But at the time of World War I, it was something the likes of which the…
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President Trump meets with Kim Jong-un: let’s see what happens
Yesterday, President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Some are mocking this, others are celebrating it as a great political and diplomatic victory. At this point, it’s too early to tell of any longterm success in this meeting. Regardless of what Kim Jong-un has agreed to, the North Korean leadership has a history…
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Peace in Korea? Time will tell
North Korea has a history of evil and tyranny. They starve and persecute their own people. They have a horrible record on human rights. It’s a totalitarian police state. The Korean War was fought from 1950-53. Hundreds of thousands of troops from the north and south as well as the United States, China, and other…
Josh Benner 