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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas

@sdundas.bsky.social
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Retired Army & Navy Officer, semi-retired priest, historian. Author of “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond.” Former Asst. Professor at Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University.

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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We live in an age where ideologues flood the airwaves and internet. It is important to learn what real courage is at such a time. In case you missed this last night. dundas.substack.com/p/showing-re...
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Showing Real Courage Against the Surety of Mind-Numbed Ideologues
Remember, There are Facts, Opinions, and Lies. Know the Difference
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My latest. Please read, ponder, comment, and share. dundas.substack.com/p/showing-re...
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Showing Real Courage Against the Surety of Mind-Numbed Ideologues
Remember, There are Facts, Opinions, and Lies. Know the Difference
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In case you missed this last night, please read, take the time to ponder, ask questions, comment and share. dundas.substack.com/p/what-hasnt...
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What Hasn’t Trump Done That Any Dictator Would? A List of Poignant Questions. Please Contribute Your Thoughts
I wrote about this last night, but the title of the article and the way that I presented it were not blunt enough.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My latest. I am trying to make my Substack more interactive and my full time job. Help me out by reading, sharing, subscribing, and especially commenting. dundas.substack.com/p/what-hasnt...
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What Hasn’t Trump Done That Any Dictator Would? A List of Poignant Questions. Please Contribute Your Thoughts
I wrote about this last night, but the title of the article and the way that I presented it were not blunt enough.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In case you missed this last night. Please get and read the book “Why Don’t We Learn From History” by B.H. Liddell-Hart. My article provides a brief synopsis of his understanding of how authoritarians conduct themselves in power. dundas.substack.com/p/why-dont-w...
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Why Don’t We Learn From History? Trump is Doing What Dictators Do. Should We Expect Anything Else?
It has been a bit over ten years since Donald Trump first took the oath of office as President of the United States.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest. Please read, think about, comment and share. dundas.substack.com/p/why-dont-w...
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Why Don’t We Learn From History? Trump is Doing What Dictators Do. Should We Expect Anything Else?
It has been a bit over ten years since Donald Trump first took the oath of office as President of the United States.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My latest, please read, comment, ponder, and share dundas.substack.com/p/the-horror...
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“The Horror, the Horror”
Apocalypse Now and Trump’s Wars
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In case you missed this last night. dundas.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
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Trump the Traitor
Trump MAGA Cultists cheering Iran Nuking Los Angeles and San Diego
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My latest, please read, share, and be enraged dundas.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
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Trump the Traitor
Trump MAGA Cultists cheering Iran Nuking Los Angeles and San Diego
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My latest please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/the-roots-...
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The Roots of the Christian Nationalist Coup at the Pentagon
Hegseth and his pastor, Doug Wilson at the Pentagon
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/drunken-pe...
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Drunken Pete Hegseth and the Threat to American Military Personnel’s Civil and Religious Rights: Crass Christian Nationalist Supremacy on Full Display
Wednesday was a really good day.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My latest, please read and share. dundas.substack.com/p/some-more-...
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Some More Recommended Reading
Maddy-Lyn Gets Her Night Out
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest, please read and share. dundas.substack.com/p/getting-up...
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Getting Up to Speed following My Technology Apocalypse
I spent much of the day waiting for UPS to deliver my replacement iPad from my cellular carrier.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest dundas.substack.com/p/plans-inte...
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Plans Interrupted, Trump’s Idiocy, and a Difficult Decision
Good evening.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/what-was-i...
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What Was I Going to Write About? And Why am I Asking You?
Well my devoted readers, I didn’t make it to Philly today so I guess that hell and high water prevailed.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/what-was-i...
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What Was I Going to Write About? And Why am I Asking You?
Well my devoted readers, I didn’t make it to Philly today so I guess that hell and high water prevailed.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding MAGA Beliefs Without Succumbing to the Propaganda
Joseph Gobbles
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding MAGA Beliefs Without Succumbing to the Propaganda
Joseph Gobbles
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My latest, until tomorrow dundas.substack.com/p/a-good-day...
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A Good Day, But a Delay
Good evening everyone.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My latest please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/the-soulle...
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The Soulless AI Wars are Coming
At the end of the film Patton, George Patton, played by George C.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/the-battle...
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The Battle of Antietam: the Bloodiest Day with Lessons for Today
I apologize for not writing recently.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In case you missed this. Please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/trumps-dis...
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Trump’s Disastrous War Expands, and We Have No Way to Win It
I have been thinking about the ongoing war against Iran which keeps expanding in ways that we don’t have the capacity to control.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My latest, important so please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/trumps-dis...
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Trump’s Disastrous War Expands, and We Have No Way to Win It
I have been thinking about the ongoing war against Iran which keeps expanding in ways that we don’t have the capacity to control.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In case you missed this yesterday dundas.substack.com/p/9-11-2001-...
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9-11-2001: A Quarter Century in a New World
Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal is a fully reader-supported publication.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest. Please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/9-11-2001-...
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9-11-2001: A Quarter Century in a New World
Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal is a fully reader-supported publication.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/labor-is-t...
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Labor is the Backbone of America. Don’t Forget That
The First Labor Day
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am back. dundas.substack.com/p/labor-is-t...
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Labor is the Backbone of America. Don’t Forget That
The First Labor Day
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My latest. Please read and share and expect more. dundas.substack.com/p/a-few-note...
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A Few Notes on My Semi-True Story
First I want to thank all my subscribers and other readers who have given me so much encouragement over the past week since I began writing about my decision to retire from teaching.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A must read deanblundell.substack.com/p/who-goes-n...
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Who Goes Nazi? A Journalist Answered That Question in 1941. I Just Spent Two Weeks in Bavaria Checking Her Work.
The spoiled son. The scared rich man. The humiliated striver. The guy who smells the wind. Trump is two of them and his entire Turd Reich fills out the rest.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My latest. Please read, comment and share dundas.substack.com/p/we-think-w...
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We Think We Have Come So Far: A Meditation from Star Trek on the Criminal Trump Regime
I have been mulling over what I should write about today since I finished last night’s article, which went in a way that I did not expect.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My latest, thank you for reading dundas.substack.com/p/thank-you-...
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Thank You all on this First Day of My Return to Life
I wasn’t Expecting to Write This
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/moral-woun...
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Moral Wounds, PTSD: Retiring Again and Starting Anew at 66
Alexander Dumas wrote in the Count of Monte Cristo: “Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fres...
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/when-you-g...
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When You Get to a Fork in the Road, take It
Saint John Chrysostom, one of the great Doctors of the Orthodox Church wrote:
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/when-you-g...
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When You Get to a Fork in the Road, take It
Saint John Chrysostom, one of the great Doctors of the Orthodox Church wrote:
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/it-is-a-fo...
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It is a Foreign World: Wounds that Never Really Heal
“They’re right, it is a long way to Tipperary.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My latest. Try to understand dundas.substack.com/p/it-is-a-fo...
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It is a Foreign World: Wounds that Never Really Heal
“They’re right, it is a long way to Tipperary.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In case you missed this yesterday. I am working on part two and hope to post it later today dundas.substack.com/p/how-many-w...
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How Many Ways Can Trump Lose a War? Part One… the Quest for More Readers*
*Hint, think about Mel Brooks line in Spaceballs
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest. I started it yesterday and hope to finish it soon. Unfortunately I need to,figure out which article that I will finish first. ADHD is a real joy. dundas.substack.com/p/how-many-w...
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How Many Ways Can Trump Lose a War? Part One… the Quest for More Readers*
*Hint, think about Mel Brooks line in Spaceballs
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In case you missed this last night. Dolly’s death still weighs heavy on my heart. dundas.substack.com/p/goodbye-do...
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Goodbye Dolly: farewell to a Woman who Knew no Enemy and Whose Goodness To Others is an Example to All
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My latest. I have other articles in the works, but this was heavy on my heart tonight. dundas.substack.com/p/goodbye-do...
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Goodbye Dolly: farewell to a Woman who Knew no Enemy and Whose Goodness To Others is an Example to All
Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal is a fully reader-supported publication.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest, please read, comment and share. dundas.substack.com/p/evil-the-o...
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Evil. The Only Word to Describe Trump and the MAGA Strategy to Divide and Conquer their Opposition
Donald Trump is a man incapable of feeling for others, or taking responsibility for his words and actions.
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In case you missed this last night dundas.substack.com/p/an-insult-...
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An Insult to Every Sailor and African American Who has Ever Served in the Military
Trump and the Navy Appear to be Committed to Putting Trump’s Name on the USS Doris Miller, CVN-81
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My latest, please read and share dundas.substack.com/p/an-insult-...
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An Insult to Every Sailor and African American Who has Ever Served in the Military
Trump and the Navy Appear to be Committed to Putting Trump’s Name on the USS Doris Miller, CVN-81
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My latest, please read, share, and comment dundas.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump: The Nexus of the Axis of Evil
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In case you missed this last night. dundas.substack.com/p/the-iron-b...
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The Iron Ball of Navy Shipbuilding in the 21st Century
Part Four… yes there will be more
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest with more to Come dundas.substack.com/p/the-iron-b...
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The Iron Ball of Navy Shipbuilding in the 21st Century
Part Four… yes there will be more
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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A Delay due to More Research about the Rot in the U.S. Navy. More than You Might Want to Know
Zumwalt Class
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My latest dundas.substack.com/p/thinking-a...
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Thinking About the Odyssey as a War Veteran with PTSD
Zeus' law tells us to treat strangers as we should be treated because they might be gods in disguise.
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Mark Ebenhöch aka INGLORIOUS BASTARD @realmarkebenhoch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
READ!!!!👇👇👇
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The Inglourious Padre Steve aka SDundas @sdundas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My latest. Please read, comment, ponder and share dundas.substack.com/p/will-trump...
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Will Trump Cross the Nuclear Threshold with His War now Un-winnable?
Viktor Frankl wrote: “Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
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