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There is one thing the French are not very good at, and that is fighting, unless, of course, they join their FUKUS Axis friends (France, UK, US) in some cowardly attack against a country with porous borders, such as was the case with Libya. Two hundred years after Napoleon was thrashed in Russia we see Hollande crawling in the footsteps of Sarkozy...
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The Syrian conflict is worsening diplomatic relations between Turkey and Iran. Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled a visit to Turkey to disagree with Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense of the United States. Panetta traveled to the south of the country to oversee the installation of Patriot batteries, devices supplied by the NATO...
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The 872 day siege began on the 8th of September 1941, and was finally broken on the 27th of January 1944. Wikipedia describes it as "one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and overwhelmingly the most costly in casualties." Some historians cite it as a genocide.
