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HISTORY THREADThis is Monte Melkonian, the strangest, most interesting man of the late Cold War.His story took him from suburban California through the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese

Have you ever heard of Red Kurdistan?In 1923, the Soviet Union set up a Kurdish entity in between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Stalin dissolved it in 1929, and many Kurds were later

What was a Russian Jew from New York doing fighting the king of Iran in 1908?Mikhail “Misha-Uria” Bogdanov-Mariashkin was one of hundreds of foreign fighters from the Russian Empire who

Many anti-war Americans look at the 1953 coup as the beginning of the U.S.-Iranian conflict.They should also look at Saddam Hussein's invasion in 1980, which also played a huge hole

THREAD: Talking to staffers at progressive orgs and in Congress, there's a sense that "yes, progressives are winning all these symbolic foreign policy victories, but..."Looking from the outside in, I

I got a copy of Bolton's book.He was against the #Syria withdrawal, but the Kurdish YPG: "Why we were affiliated with one terrorist group in order to destroy another stemmed