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Resource Competition With China Lay Behind Trump’s Iran War

Guy Laron Convergence
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource

April 12, 1861, Confederate Forces Fired on Fort Sumter

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
Their move had come because the elite enslavers who controlled those southern states believed that Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860 itself marked the end of their way of life.
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