People rise and fall like buoys on the water.

A great puzzle for Stalin was why the British threw Winston Churchill out of office in 1945. The last meeting of the “Big Three” included Clement Attlee in place of the cigar-chomping Churchill, as well as Harry Truman in lieu of the deceased FDR. The British people felt that victory over Japan and the end of the war were in sight. They had had enough of their wartime prime minister and defeated Churchill’s conservatives by a landslide. They may have jumped the gun, but they were already looking to a post-war England and gave the task of running the country to Attlee. Churchill would again rise to be prime minister in 1951. When King George VI wanted to give Churchill a high honor known as the Order of the Garter, the then-former prime minister answered, “How can his Majesty give me the garter when the people just gave me the boot?” He received the same honor from the king’s daughter, Queen Elizabeth, nine years later.

Another puzzle is how well the U.S. combined forces are destroying Iran. Ostensibly, the Air Force and Navy have only been under Donald Trump 2.0 and his people for 15 months. How can the American forces be performing so well after 12 years of Obama and Biden? One would think that they would be rusty or unprepared. It would appear that the fighting ethos never died in the American forces. The change in leadership that includes Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, General Dan Caine, and Admiral Brad Cooper has led to an incredibly successful bombing campaign and presently blockage of Iranian shipping around the Straits of Hormuz.

Great men and women are a product of their times. Had Donald Trump not broken the Obama-Clinton-Biden-Harris chain, the U.S. would already be a third-world basket case. Dwight Eisenhower was catapulted by General George C. Marshall over 400 more........

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