An update to a previous post. I earlier noted that William Bradford, a professor at West Point, had published a paper entitled “The Treason of the Professors” in which he claimed that there were about 40 professors in the US who should be tried as “enemy combatants” because of their Islamist sympathies. West Point has just announced that Mr. Bradford has left West Point.
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of World War II. The German army moved into Poland on 1 September 1939 and the British decided that the expansion of German power in the Rhineland, in Austria, and in Czechoslovakia had gone far enough. The Soviet Union also announced the approval of the German-Russian non-aggression pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty, which freed Germany from worrying about Russian intervention on the Eastern front. That Treaty paved the way for the Soviet invasion of Poland later on in the month.
US President Obama has called for new icebreakers to patrol the Arctic Ocean to counter what he considered to be a Russia threat to dominate the polar region. Russia currently has a large number of icebreakers (not surprisingly given the extent of the Russia border that is above the Arctic Circle), but the US only has a small number (again, not surprisingly given that it is only the Alaskan coastline that is above the Circle). But Russia is also building up a large number of forward bases to buttress its claims to own an area that may have very large reservoirs of oil and natural gas.
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