● Politics

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

B3W - Build Back Better World ..

Canada Politics ..

Coups d'État ..

DARVO → 

Deep State - Technocrats Pulling Levers ..

Democratic Backsliding, Competitive Authoritarianism (Europe, 21st) ⇻

DORA - Defence of the Realm Act, 1914 .. 

Dual-Sector Model (developing economies) ..

Dystopian Denunciations - Counterespionage ..

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Economic Information Unit ..

Economics of Defense ..

Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 ..

EPo - Europolitics ..

Espionage Act - USA ..

EU 'R Bust - Europe WW2 to 2014+ (EU) ..

EU's Future? ..

Evolution of English Law; 600 BCE+ ➼

Fifth Column ..

Filibuster - History of Anti-Democracy ..

Geostrategic Power - Instruments ..

Global Cooperative Organizations ..

Great Power Relations ..

Hierarchies ..

How Civil Wars Start (2022) ..

Hungary's 21st C Slide ..

Inflation Reduction Act ↬

"Liberal" History ..

Low Trust Societies & Greek debt crisis ..

MAGAtry ..

Maskirovka - Маскировка ..

Military Alliances - Global 21st ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..
New World Order & Geopolitics of Competition ..
Neutrality Acts - Isolationist America & Lend-Lease ..

NSA - USA's National Security Agency .. 

Oppressive Stratagems ..

Parliament at War .. 

Pentagon ..

Political Attitudes & Electoral Systems ⇻

Political Squabbles - UK, 21st ..

Private Truths, Public Lies (1995) ..

Putin's Puppet - Worst Presidency ..

Rogue Superpower - USA ..

Rule-Based Co-operation vs Philosophical Anarchy ⇻

Size Matters? - Advantages of Small Nations ..

Speeches - Good, Bad, Ugly ..  

Supply and Demand ↠

Thirteen Keys ..

Treachery Act 1940 ..

Tory Reign - UK, 21st ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

UKUSA Agreement - FVEY ..

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Voting Systems ..

War - Philosophy of War ⇻

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Worst Prime Minister? ..

Anocracy, Autocracy, >> Authoritarianism >>>

Anocracy ..

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

Coups d'État ..

Impact of War

Lessons from War - Margaret MacMillan ..

War - Philosophy of War ⇻

21st century

Bye, Bye, BoJo (22-9-6) ..

Canada Politics ..

CCP Crackdown on Business ..

CCP's Tech Seizure ..

Deep State - Technocrats Pulling Levers ..

Democratic Backsliding, Competitive Authoritarianism (Europe, 21st) ⇻

DIME & National Power ..

EPo - Europolitics ..

Espionage Act - USA ..

French Diplomacy ..

Geostrategy - Big 5, 21st ..

Global Cooperative Organizations ..

Glocalization, Neomedievalism ..

How Civil Wars Start (2022) ..

Hungary's 21st C Slide ..

警察 - Jǐngchá - Xinese Police ..

Low Trust Societies & Greek debt crisis ..

Merkel, Angela ..

Military Alliances - Global 21st ..

Political Attitudes & Electoral Systems ⇻

Putin's Puppet - Worst Presidency ..

21-11-11 Ramping up Authoritarianism ..

Threats to Democracy - 21st century ..

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Tyranny of the Minority (2023) ⇻

Voting Systems ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Canada 

Canada Politics ..

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott ..

CCP vs USA

Central Control (CCP, China) or Collapse ..

Fifth Column ..

警察 - Jǐngchá - Xinese Police ..

Phases - XXP ..

Primacy - China’s Quest vs USA, QUAD ..

21-11-11 Ramping up Authoritarianism ..

89-6-4 Tiananmen Square Massacre - Tiān'ānmén dà túshā ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Crypto, Currency

Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs ↠

Citizens, 21st

Nervous Neighbors (Preppers, Survival) ..

Education

Education - Council, Board, Butler, Ministry ..

Education, Training, Universities - post-WW1 ..

Teacher Training - 1899-1951 ..

Europe

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

Democratic Backsliding, Competitive Authoritarianism (Europe, 21st) ⇻

EPo - Europolitics ..

EU 'R Bust - Europe WW2 to 2014+ (EU) ..

French Diplomacy ..

Hungary's 21st C Slide ..

"Strategic Autonomy" of EU ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Germany

Anti-Nazism in Germany ..

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

Deutsche Wiedervereinigung - '89-'90 Reunification ..
Edelweiß Pirates ..
Eiserne Front und Drei Pfeile ..

Hitlerjugend ..

Merkel, Angela ..

Nazi Leaders' Cars ↠

35-9-15 Nürnberger Gesetze ..

Swingjugend & Counter-Culture Cool ..

Japan

Meiji Japan ..

Hirohito during WW2 ..

Alliances - Power Projection, Trade

Anglosphere - CANZUK ..

CAI, RCEP - Asia, Europe, USA ..

Cold War mapped - '45-'91 ..

Djibouti Bases - China's 1st Abroad .. 

ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe ..

Eurasia & Power Competition at Sea ..

Freedom of Navigation ..

Geostrategy - Big 5, 21st ..

Glocalization, Neomedievalism ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Military Alliances - Global 21st ..
Military Ambitions - China 2021 ..

NZ, Aus, USA vs China in Pacific ..

QUAD - PATO ..
Superpower Potential ..
2021 Power Projection - US Military ..

Power of Geography ..
Prisoners of Geography ↬

RCEP - Asia-Pacific trading bloc ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..
US Overseas Territories ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Communications

SCN - Skeleton Cable Network ..

Logistics, Modeling, Strategy

Churchill vs Chamberlain: Road to Dunkirk ..

Deep State - Technocrats Pulling Levers ..

DIME & National Power ..

Freedom of Navigation ..

Geostrategy - Big 5, 21st ..

Hawk vs Dove - Aggression vs Pacifism .. 

Lanchester's Laws ..

Maths of War ↠

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

Power of Geography ..

Private Truths, Public Lies (1995) ..

Salvo Combat Model ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Nordic, Baltic

Cold War mapped - '45-'91 ..

Sweden's NATO Question ..

> Political Affiliation >>

Political Shenanigans 

DARVO → 

Post-WW2:
1948 Arab-Israeli War ..    

2021 Power Projection - US Military ..

Prisons

Wakefield Prison '30s+ ..

Religionism

Joke Francis on Ukraine ⇻

Resistance

Resisting Tyranny ..

Resources

Future 21st C Battle? - Seabed Mining ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

● Securing Democracy 21st ..
Securing Democracy 21st Century ..

Social Progress - Britain, Commonwealth

Colquhoun, Maureen - 1st Lesbian MP ..

Contagious Diseases Acts 1864-9 →

1832 Great Reform Act ..

1893-11-28 NZ Women Vote ..

Progress, Reversal - Women in WW1 ..

Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 .. 

Welfare State ⇦ WW2 ..

Women & Children - Home Front ..

Social Progress/Regress - USA

1865-1-31 Abolition of Slavery, 13th Amendment .. 

DARVO → 

Enfranchisement - 19th Amendment ..

Filibuster - History of Anti-Democracy ..

How Civil Wars Start (2022) ..

Prohibition, USA - 1920 - ends 1933 ..

1854-3-20 Republican Party ..     

73-1-22 Roe v Wade ..

69-6-28 Stonewall Riots ..

Women & Children - Home Front ..

Social Regress - China

21-11-11 Ramping up Authoritarianism ..

89-6-4 Tiananmen Square Massacre - Tiān'ānmén dà túshā ..

Systems of Government

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

Oppressive Stratagems ..

The End of History and the Last Man (1992) ..

Treaties/Alliances

Treaties ..
TSG-19 - Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ..
TS-20 Treaty of Sèvres ..

TT-20 Treaty of Trianon ..  

TBL-18 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ..

TNS-19 Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine .. 

UNCLOS - Law of the Sea 1994 ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

Asia

Freedom of Navigation .. 

2021 Myanmar Military Coup ..

Meiji Japan ..

Phases - XXP ..

Wumaos - 50 Cent Party ..

Europe

Authoritarian Manipulations ..

Cold War mapped - '45-'91 ..

Democratic Backsliding, Competitive Authoritarianism (Europe, 21st) ⇻

Deutsche Wiedervereinigung - '89-'90 Reunification ..

EPo - Europolitics ..

EU 'R Bust - Europe WW2 to 2014+ (EU) ..

French Diplomacy ..

USA

1865-1-31 Abolition of Slavery, 13th Amendment .. 

1792-5-17 Buttonwood Agreement → NYSE ..

1916-6-1 Brandeis, Louis - SCOTUS ..

Cold War mapped - '45-'91 ..

1787 Constitutional Convention (US) ..

1946-9-24 Containment as US Policy ..

DIME & National Power ..

Eleanor Roosevelt (USA) ..

Enfranchisement - 19th Amendment ..

Espionage Act - USA ..

Federal Reserve ~ Downturns, Depressions ..

Freedom of Navigation .. 

Geostrategy - Big 5, 21st ..

GPS - Global Positioning Systems ..

How Civil Wars Start (2022) ..

MIC - Military Industrial Complex ..

1823 Monroe Doctrine 1898 ..

[Oligarchic] System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It ⇻

Original Constitutional Intent ⇻

1896-5-18 Plessy v. Ferguson ..

Political Attitudes & Electoral Systems ⇻

2021 Power Projection - US Military ..

Prohibition, USA 1919-1-16 ..

Prohibition, USA - 1920 - 1933 ..

US Political Labels ..

US Propaganda ..

Putin's Puppet - Worst Presidency ..

73-1-22 Roe v Wade ..

Rogue Superpower - USA ..

69-6-28 Stonewall Riots ..

Threats to Democracy - 21st century ..

TTC - EU-US Trade and Technology Council ..

Tyranny of the Minority (2023) ⇻

1968 - Washington, D.C. Rebellion ..

Weaponized Interdependence - Global Economic Coercion ..

USSR / Russian Federation

Cold War mapped - '45-'91 ..

Communist War on [Rival] Religion ..

1946-9-24 Containment as US Policy ..

Deutsche Wiedervereinigung - '89-'90 Reunification ..

Fifth Column ..

Komsomol, post-WW2 ..

Kremlin ..

Maskirovka - Маскировка ..

Oppressive Stratagems ..

Rigged Again - Russian Election ..

Scouting, Hitlerjugend, Komsomol ..

Stalin's Daughter - Svetlana Alliluyeva ..

Stan Water Conflict ..

Soviet Courts ⇒ Serving State ..

Soviet Youth Organizations - Cold War ..

Sweden's NATO Question ..

▲ Ukraine History ➧

What If Russia Collapsed? ..

XiXiPee

Fifth Column ..

警察 - Jǐngchá - Xinese Police ..

Phases - XXP ..

21-11-11 Ramping up Authoritarianism ..

●● Education, Training .. 

▲ Imperialism ➧

● 20th Century

Pre-WW1 (1900 to 1914)
●● WW1 (1914-1918)
●● Interbellum (1919-1939)
●● WW2 (1939-1945)
●● Post War & Cold War (1946-1989)
●● 1990s ..

● 20th century τ ..

●●τ 1900 through 1929 ..
●●τ 1930 through 1960 ..
●●τ 1961 through 1990 ..
●●τ 1991 through 2021 ..

20th Century History (1900-1909) - HiPo >> .

20th Century History (1910-1919) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1920-1929) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1930-1939) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1940-1949) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1950-1959) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1960-1969) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1970-1979) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1980-1989) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1990-1999) - HiPo >> .

Descent into WW2

How WW2 Began | B2W | 1939 3/3 > .  

History of German Flag - Hilbert > .

1930s Prelude to WW2 - BeGe >> .

1900-37+ Localized Conflicts - BePr >> .

Long Shadow & Impossible Peace → Global Conflicts - BePr >> .

Impossible Peace - Time >> .

Events that caused the world to stand on the brink of total war in just two decades after the "War to End All Wars". Events that end with three words through a phone line: "Grandmother is dead," words that launch World War II.

Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

● '39

Descent into WW2 .. 
Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

'39 > .

1939-9-1: Nazi Germany invades Poland ⇒ Second World War - Pod > .
1939 >> .

YEAR 1 - WW2 - 1939/40 - WW2 >> .

1939 ..

39-9-1 The Polish German War 39-10-6 ..
39-9-3 England declares war 45-5-7 ..

39-10-5 A Total and Unmitigated Defeat .. 
39-10-17 German U-47 Raid at Scapa Flow ..
39-11-30 Soviets invade Finland 40-3-13 ..

39-12-17 Admiral Graf Spee scuttled, Battle of the River Plate ..

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 .. 

Sitzkreig Hesitation

Ignoring early signs of impending invasion > .
Shadows Of The Third Reich - Sitzkrieg, The Phony War > . 

The Phoney War: Actually Not Phoney > . 

WW2: The Beginning, "The Phony War" - AP > .
Phoney War, the Admiral Graf Spee and the Altmark Incident - HiGu > .