Comments on: The Americans had tacitly accepted war at secondhand with the Communist center of power https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/the-americans-had-tacitly-accepted-war-at-secondhand-with-the-communist-center-of-power/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: RLVC https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/the-americans-had-tacitly-accepted-war-at-secondhand-with-the-communist-center-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-3274666 RLVC Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:10:06 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=47157#comment-3274666 Perhaps I will read Fehrenbach after all. Have you read The Gnomes of Zurich, The Swiss Banks, or The United Nations in war and peace?

]]> By: Prism https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/the-americans-had-tacitly-accepted-war-at-secondhand-with-the-communist-center-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-3274362 Prism Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:03:32 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=47157#comment-3274362 ‘that dynamic puritanism that accompanies all great revolutions’

Funny how Yanks never seem to see that about their own spiralling series of revolutions. But, of course, despite never seeming to make it to either the Atlantic or Pacific shores, it is always others who are the aggressors.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/the-americans-had-tacitly-accepted-war-at-secondhand-with-the-communist-center-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-3274246 Isegoria Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:10:20 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=47157#comment-3274246 The phrasing is Fehrenbach’s, and you’re right, it is interesting.

]]> By: RLVC https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/the-americans-had-tacitly-accepted-war-at-secondhand-with-the-communist-center-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-3274245 RLVC Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:03:35 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=47157#comment-3274245 I.,

“The punishment that the U.N. and its agent, the United States…”

This is one of the most interesting turns of phrase that I have ever witnessed.

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