The current UN is kind of a "successor non state" to the League with somewhat more muscle. What has made the UN somewhat more effective than the league is nuclear weapons which moved many major power confrontations from battlefields to diplomatic arena.
Was that the debate where Reagan explained "I am paying for this microphone Mr. Chairman!'
Or was it the one where Reagan said "Sit down George!" to Bush and Bush without thinking complied and thus humiliated himself?
Creating countries along straight up ethnic lines of control and the general idea of "self determination" is an idea fraught with disaster.
there is never enough land and resources available to "buy" everyone off and get them to be happy with their share. This quickly promotes tensions and...
Assuming the Cubans tried but were beaten back Soviet forces stationed with the weapons, it is possible it could have launched a new era of caution by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. In particular with the practices of where they stationed nuclear weapons and how much they trusted "allies".
I've been interested in doing a highly illustrated book where the American Civil War (1861-65) had a couple of hundred heavier than air combat aircraft available on both sides along with a substantial number of combat balloons and battle blimps.
Given that the time between the run up to the...
A Clinton not threatened with possible impeachment and accusations of "wagging the dog" (waging an overseas war to distract from a domestic scandal) would probably have ordered the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1998 as was a possibility.
In Matthew White's "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things" he observes that so many big dictators came from countries on the periphery of the nation they led.
Stalin was a Georgian. Napoleon was Corsican. Hitler was part Austrian.
Wonder why that is?