John G Lammi

“given the startling superiority of much of the Red Army’s weaponry, the Wehrmacht needed an entire new generation of tanks and infantry weapons.”
― Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

“It was also the Luftwaffe that would be the first to face the terrifying industrial might of the United States.”
― Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

“Furthermore, as if forgetting the existence of the Soviet “Evil Empire”, she practically called for the various peoples of the USSR to stay “loyal to the Soviet Union as a commonwealth of nations”, to be content with a certain degree of cultural and religious autonomy, like the various tribes in Nigeria. And this was said at the time of the offensive against the sovereignty of the Baltic republics, whose absorption into the USSR was never acknowledged by Britain or the USA. Alas, Thatcher was no exception. Even Ronald Reagan, President of the USA, a man for whom the very name Lenin was always anathema, did not fail to praise Gorbachev for his “return to the paths of Lenin.” This was also said in a radio address transmitted to the USSR. As for his successor, George Bush and his Secretary of State Jim Baker, they outdid everyone, opposing the inevitable disintegration of the USSR until the very last day. “Yes, I think I can trust Gorbachev,”—said George Bush to Time magazine357 just when Gorbachev was beginning to lose control and was tangled hopelessly in his own lies—“I looked him in the eye, I appraised him. He was very determined. Yet there was a twinkle. He is a guy quite sure of what he is doing. He has got a political feel.”
― Vladimir Bukovsky, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity