North Africa

And so there were opportunities there.

Likewise with the French in some of their possessions out in the Pacific, but also in North Africa as well.

And the German policy, if possible, to kind of drive divides within these individual empires, and of course to exert pressure against the United States, these were big deals.

In fact, everywhere was fair game.

Um, and, um, although, of course, he didn't have to look very far because the Italians made sure that whatever they did, they needed rescue.

So the Germans had to go there and, and, and rescue North Africa and Greece.

Everywhere they went, they, they lost, and they needed, uh, German assistance.

So wearing them out wasn't very, uh, wasn't gonna be very difficult, which is another reason why you didn't have a blitzkrieg in 1941.

There was no doubt.

And once they were able to push the Germans out and take Romania, well, there's their fuel source.

And, you know, I think things would have been different if Mussolini, whose antics, I call them antics, led to Germans having to rescue him at least twice and taking certain losses, potentially in armor in North Africa and in Greece, which was a, you know, I've always told people that when, I told my students, I said when Fascist Italy fell in 1943, that was a victory for Germany, not for the Allies.

According to Arad, the number of 500,000 soldiers commonly used in the sources would imply a general base.

He lied about being a dual citizen of Egypt.

He lied about being an immigrant from a North African country.

He lied over and over.

This guy is hard to get the truth out.

He said, well, you know what? It's better than beating on a snare drum the rest of the war.

So this drummer in the band becomes a bomber pilot and puts himself in the right seat of a B-24 and winds up in the most incredible environment in North Africa, as we know.

And the bomb group that he's part of, the 398th, was a relatively new group that had just been formed and then sent overseas and then into the desert, into Libya.

Yeah, they formed up in Denver, Colorado, shipped out.

Rookie bomb group, 8th Air Force, being sent on a secret mission to the 9th.

And they reported to Benghazi, Libya.

They found out that two other 8th Air Force bomb groups had left England before them, made the journey to North Africa, where two bomb groups were already waiting that were serving there.

So you have five B-24 groups in one place.

To start with, he is of Moroccan Jewish descent.

So that means that he is Mizrahi, which are Jews from North Africa or the Middle East.

If he were to become prime minister, he would become the first Mizrahi prime minister in Israel's history.

It's always been Ashkenazi leaders who are Jews from Europe, who traditionally come from a bit of a more privileged class.

The use of human rights to demolish political authority and to reroute all political power and loyalty and obligation in this transnational American-led structure of globalization, the very direct consequences and the most extreme consequences of that are visible in places like Libya, which was destroyed as part of the NATO war against that country in 2010, 2011, with the result that we've seen the restoration of slave markets on the coasts of North Africa.

Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, I mean, he's one who makes that connection that the claim to exclusive political authority and supreme center of political authority is itself implicitly Nazi totalitarian basis of political order and indeed individual freedom.

There can be no flourishing for individual freedom without political order provided by accountable state power.

And so the effort, the use of human rights to demolish political authority and to reroute all political power and loyalty and obligation in this transnational American-led structure of globalization The very direct consequences and the most extreme consequences of that are visible in places like Libya, which was destroyed as part of the NATO war against that country in 2010, 2011, with the result that we've seen the restoration of slave markets on the coasts of North Africa.

Yeah.

Back to the 1700s and much earlier.

Um, and, um, although, of course, he didn't have to look very far because the Italians made sure that whatever they did, they needed rescue.

So the Germans had to go there and, and, and rescue North Africa and Greece.

Everywhere they went, they, they lost and, and they needed, uh, German assistance.

So wearing them out wasn't very, uh, wasn't gonna be very difficult, which is another reason why you didn't have a Blitzkrieg in 1941.

And all, as we mentioned before, these, these technological improvements, there was no doubt.

And once they were able to push the Germans out and take Romania, well, there's their fuel source.

And, um, you know, I think things would have been different if Mussolini, who, whose antics, I call them antics, um, led to Germans having to rescue him at least twice and taking certain losses, potentially in armor, in, in North Africa and in Greece, which was a...

You know, I've, I've always told people that when, when...

During the late Roman Empire of the 4th and 5th centuries CE, both the empire's western and eastern halves were buffeted with wave after wave of migrations and invasions by nomadic peoples who came from what are now Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.

Some of these peoples, like the Goths and the Vandals, settled in Italy, North Africa, and Spain.

The people now known as Vikings, who are called Varangians in Byzantine historical accounts, arrived in Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries and settled in Britain, France, and the Slavic lands now occupied by Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

Though the Varangians came to Byzantium as paid soldiers, in the ninth century they were invited by the East Slavs, who lived between the Baltic and Black Seas, to serve as their rulers.

He does have an M.D.

When you say that you're an immigrant from North Africa, those are disqualifying for you because you've lied about who you are.

Congressman, I think you guys should start holding him accountable versus coming back

and pushing back