Russian journalist: You'd better believe we know Ukraine invasion is "a crushing moral defeat"
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I wish this post were an April Fools Day joke, but it is not.
The die had been cast. Key Point: On the evening of September 26, 1940, American radio announcer and journalist William L. Shirer noted in his later famous Berlin Diary that the next day Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano would arrive there from Rome, adding that most people thought it was for the announcement that Francisco Franco’s Spain was entering the war on the side of the Axis. Indeed, Spanish Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner was already in Berlin for that expected ceremony, Shirer concluded. Spain did not join the Axis, but something else of even greater importance d...