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rustbeltvoice

(494 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:07 PM Aug 2025

August confrontation

Barbara Tuchman was an historian, she wrote Guns of August. I had a history professor say, unexpected political events often happen in August, when people are on vacation, and nothing is planned. At this moment, Europe has come to confront trump.

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August confrontation (Original Post) rustbeltvoice Aug 2025 OP
I had a history professor who was fond of the quote: rsdsharp Aug 2025 #1

rsdsharp

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1. I had a history professor who was fond of the quote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:12 PM
Aug 2025

“When the flags unfurl, the brains go into the trumpet.”

I hope we don’t get to that point.

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