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2019-09-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10325 views ] Top

#1 ...on that note.

Note well that today is 80 years after...
...the first regular act of war took place on 1 September 1939. At 04:45, the old German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig on the Baltic Sea

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-01 07:40|| 2019-09-01 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Take a few minutes to read the comments where this column originated. 500 plus comments, bunch of whack jobs. If this is the future, the Republic is doomed.

Posted by RJ45ACP 2019-09-01 07:55|| 2019-09-01 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Procopius2k, what you mean is the war in Europe, a Chinese or Ethiopian might pick a different date, not to mention a Russian or American.

Posted by Bernardz 2019-09-01 08:36|| 2019-09-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I go by 'traditional' Western Civilization connotation. As for the Russians, they also invaded Poland from the East. While the Americans chose to sit it out despite the efforts of FDR for the next couple of years, it wasn't till Germany and Italy declared war on the US following the Japanese open act of war that we became official 'allies' for the European struggle. However, the war was always there. Ethiopia was much like Spain, just a precursor to the main event.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-01 09:05|| 2019-09-01 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Just more proof some people are not human and deserve to be removed from the living. They were not born that way, they made a conscious choice to become that way.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-09-01 10:01|| 2019-09-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 If you think those comments are "off their meds" then go to any Trump tweet and read those comments:)

Posted by Chath Angens8595 2019-09-01 13:06|| 2019-09-01 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Any internet post about the Holocaust is bound to bring in the worst of humanity.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-01 15:18|| 2019-09-01 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #7: Any internet post about the Holocaust is bound to bring in the worst of humanity.

The 'ultimate solution' as an implement of geo-political change will probably never be used again. Islam could never tolerate the creation of another Israel.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-01 16:07|| 2019-09-01 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Islam is the most likely to attempt a second 'ultimate solution.'

And those that plan such things rarely think about failure.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-01 17:39|| 2019-09-01 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 The article was good, the comments are mostly horrible and depressing.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-09-01 22:10|| 2019-09-01 22:10|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Zerohedge must be improving. Off to see the train wreck. But first...

"Millennials, history is in!
It's boring AF. Let's begin.
So... don't ask your granny
Re status quo ante,
Just skim Howard Zinn FTW!!!"

Posted by Lumpy Grundy6931 2019-09-01 22:48|| 2019-09-01 22:48|| Front Page Top

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