The fight was actually a rare British vs French engagement during World War II.
Key point: London made a tough and ruthless call. France had fallend and the British decided they would rather sink the French fleet rather than risk their surrender or cooperation with Berlin.
It was the night of July 2, 1940. In May Hitler had overrun the Low Countries and driven the British Army to the English Channel. In June German armies had completed the rout of the British, pressing them out to sea at Dunkirk, and then swept down to finish off the French. Winston Churchill, practically a lone voice in the 1930s against the danger of Hitlerism, had been appointed prime minister on May 10, yet had presided over little except disaster, and knew it. “Wars are not won with evacuations,” he had said of the Dunkirk retreat, but even in those dark hours believed the French armies would stiffen and halt the Wehrmacht short of Paris, or at least along some line to which the British could return. He s
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Whether it takes a year or 10 years or 100 years for the wheel of history to turn, the Republicans who chose “stability” over democracy will not be remembered kindly, if they are remembered at all.
Republicans are in the process of betraying the United States. Republicans who urge their colleagues not to object when counting the electoral votes, who parrot Joe Biden’s calls for unity, who urge the nation to accept and to move on: these Republicans have decided that nothing is worse than a constitutional crisis. Nothing is worse than turmoil not even the end of freedom. They are choosing to support an unelected government rather than risk the chaos of leftists rioting in the streets.
charms king charles, his french fleet continues the march through rest of the italian peninsula. the situation in italy is getting dodgy and into this vacuum kind of enters this passionate fundamentalist. narrator: he s a fryar living in florence. as vatican culture becomes overtake within materialism and depravity. savonarola becomes more and more committed to the word of the gospel and takes vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. he s a very good preacher and understands the bible inside out. he s part of a church but he sees its corruption and so he starts to make an attack on the vatican.
here, to bolster the counterisis mission, and you have isis in the crosshairs now by american jets, french jets, which intensified the airstrikes after the paris atrocities, and russian jets. there s very little coordination, and this is the first time in recent memory that a nato plane has shot down a russian plane in circumstances that are still disputed. richard engel live in istanbul, turkey, with this breaking news. we ll continue to follow it. thanks, richard. mean time the french military is carrying out new missions targeting isis in iraq and syria. fighter jets took off yesterday from france s charles de gaulle aircraft carrier. it arrived in theater just sunday. the ship is the only one of its kind in the french fleet, and according to military officials, fighter jets destroyed two targets in iraq early in the day. then later on monday, another wave of airstrikes was carried out in raqqah, syria. these new missions come after
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