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What will you do, when President Trump orders his troops to invade Canada?[...] Canada is a country worthy of invasion. Canada has abundant resources of fresh water, oil, coal and timber, all of which will be increasingly important as climate change continues its death march across history. The longer we scorch the Earth, the more valuable Canada’s resources become. [...] Besides, we all know how Trump feels about oil resources. “It used to be ‘to the victor belong the spoils,’ ” he said when asked about Iraq at the NBC Commander in Chief Forum, adding “Now, there was no victor...

the eXile - Press Review DOWN Periscope by Matt Taibbi The most striking thing about foreign media coverage of the Kursk disaster was, of course, the volume of it. For two straight weeks the sunken submarine was front-page news all over the world, allowing it to easily surpass Boris Yeltsin’s resignation and the 1998 financial crisis as the most intensely-followed Russian news story in recent memory. The Mir space station crisis got more total ink space, but since it deteriorated less spectacularly and over a longer period of time, its media slugging percentage was a lot lower than the ...

By John Dolan Gorby The Terrible: U.S. General Agrees The Collapse of the Soviet Military By William E. Odom Yale University Press (paperback) 2000 In the first half of the twentieth century, Western and Central Europe faced off, and twice beat each other nearly to death. In the latter half of the century, Russia and America faced off,… and blustered, and schemed… and didn’t fight. This is very strange history, and it leaves us trembling and disappointed, like a middle-class child who expected a fight with the school bully who failed to show. The subjunctive Third World War: what would ...