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The United States' foreign policy during the Cold War era, including its relations with the USSR and other countries.
The principal legal framework governing U.S. military presence in Greenland is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, negotiated at NATO’s reques...
The chance of the mounting a conventional military is, based on reporting and expert commentary, vanishingly small—analysts in multiple outlets call it “unlikely,” “extremely unlikely” or “effectively...
The April 9, 1941 “Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland,” signed by Danish Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann and U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull, gave the United States broad wartime rights to defend ...
is a senior American career diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador after more than three decades in the Foreign Service, serving in a string of high‑level posts including U.S. Ambassador t...
’s motivations in a second presidency appear to be a blend of implementing a sweeping conservative-populist policy agenda, consolidating executive control over government institutions, and securing a ...
President Harry S. Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 because a convergence of moral conviction about Jewish suffering after the Holocaust, domestic political pressures and advisers...
Multiple independent lines of third‑party evidence show that Soviet organizations and non‑ observatories tracked and observed in real time — from radio reception and telescope monitoring to radar sigh...
’s is a 1955 novel set in early-1950s that fuses a murder mystery with a cautionary political allegory about Western — especially American — interventionism as crumbles . Told by weary British journal...
avoided service in Vietnam by receiving four student deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels that led to a permanent 4‑F classification; contemporaneous S...
The – “Defense of ” agreement established -based U.S. defense rights in Greenland while explicitly recognizing Danish sovereignty, but it was implemented alongside secret annexes—most notably a Top Se...
proposed paying $100 million (specifically suggested as in gold) for in 1946, a secret initiative rooted in strategic concerns; Denmark did not accept and the idea faded into a historical footnote tha...
has been an outspoken critic of foreign policy for decades, condemning what he sees as militaristic unilateralism—especially the War—and warning that American overreach both destabilizes other countri...
created broad U.S. rights to establish and use “defense areas” . narrows that legal footprint by formally concentrating U.S. access to the Pituffik (Thule) base, embeds Greenlandic authorities into co...
The 1951 U.S.–Denmark “Defense of Greenland” agreement authorizes U.S. forces to establish, operate and use designated “defense areas” in Greenland as part of NATO collective-defense planning, but it ...
The scenario — that holding Alaska plus seizing Greenland would allow a U.S. president to “surround Canada” and roll through a chain of countries from Canada to Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia, ...
A small set of books, documentaries and fringe articles advance the claim that ’s intelligence service, , helped orchestrate ’s , relying largely on secondary accounts, a handful of alleged insider te...
The offer to buy — a reportedly secret $100 million-in-gold bid made and rejected by — crystallizes themes that still shape modern thinking about territorial purchases: strategic value, legal constrai...
Immediate recognition of on signaled a political alignment that perceived as Western preference for the Zionist project, hardened Arab rejection of the UN Partition, and contributed to the politicizat...
Apollo 11 was the first crewed lunar landing, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touching down on July 20, 1969, and Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the Moon—a moment watched by an esti...
The preponderance of available reporting and official timelines shows that the current large-scale phase of the Russo‑Ukrainian war began when Russia launched a full‑scale invasion on February 24, 202...