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If America Walks Away from NATO, the World Will Feel the Shock
If America Walks Away from NATO, the World Will Feel the Shock For more than seventy years, NATO has stood as a symbol of collective security and shared responsibility. It was never a perfect alliance, but it worked because it was built on a simple idea: when nations stand together, wars are less likely to happen. Today, however, that foundation is being shaken—not by foreign enemies, but by growing voices inside the United States questioning whether NATO is still worth it.
By Wings of Time 29 days ago in History
Can the United States Leave NATO?
Can the United States Leave NATO? What It Would Take—and What It Would Mean The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, commonly known as NATO, has been one of the most powerful military alliances in modern history. Since its creation in 1949, the United States has been NATO’s strongest member—militarily, financially, and politically. But in recent years, debates have grown louder about whether the U.S. should remain in the alliance. This raises a serious question: how could the United States be removed from NATO—or leave it—and what would that mean for the world?
By Wings of Time 29 days ago in History
Making The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Community: 1991 Ethnogenesis And 2019 Coming Out
The ethnic Qarsherskiyan community is a multigenerationally mixed race community with deep roots in colonial North America, mainly in the United States of America and in Canada. The homeland for the ethnic Qarsherskiyan people is a broad patchwork of land like a giant and expansive checkerboard, running through the Appalachian Mountain network from Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Labrador and the island of Newfoundland in Canada to the Roanoke Valley in the US state of Virginia, passing through the US states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the Canadian Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. The Mezhrevande consists of the Southeastern Coastal Tidewater Region, which is the Piedmont and Coastal Plains or Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and all of Florida. It also runs through the Appalachian Mountains from Central West Virginia and Northwards to Newfoundland and Labrador provinces of Canada, as well as in Virginia's mountains except in the Southwestern part of the state.
By Tatiana Whitelowery News Agency29 days ago in History
Russia Deploys Rare Hypersonic Missile in “Massive” Strike on Ukraine
In the early hours of January 9, 2026, Russian forces launched a major military assault on Ukrainian territory that marked only the second known combat use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile, one of Moscow’s most advanced and strategically significant weapons. The attack, accompanied by a barrage of drones and conventional missiles, has heightened fears of escalation, particularly given the missile’s potential nuclear capability and long range (Reuters, 2026).
By Games Mode Onabout a month ago in History
The Parts of History That Don’t Raise Their Hand
There’s a moment after the crowd leaves a place where something happened. After the speeches. After the photos. After the plaques are bolted into brick.
By Megan Stroupabout a month ago in History
The Shadow of a Giant
I never met him. But I knew his voice. It came through our black-and-white TV in 1983, calm and steady, speaking of “morning in America” while my father fixed dinner and my mother worried about bills. To me, he was just a man in a suit—distant, polished, untouchable.
By KAMRAN AHMADabout a month ago in History
The Slow Fade of the United Nations: When Powerful Nations Turn Away
The Slow Fade of the United Nations: When Powerful Nations Turn Away In January 2026, as the United Nations enters its 81st year, the organization feels more like a relic than a powerhouse. Headlines scream of wars unchecked, humanitarian crises ignored, and a budget teetering on collapse. Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of a "race to bankruptcy," with a proposed 15% cut to the 2026 regular budget—dropping it to $3.238 billion—and nearly 20% of staff positions slashed. Unpaid dues pile up, led by major contributors like the United States, which owes billions and has signaled it may withhold peacekeeping funds entirely. It's not just money; it's a symptom of deeper indifference. Countries, especially the most powerful ones like America, are increasingly treating the UN as optional—an outdated club where talk is cheap and action rarer still.
By Khan Shahabout a month ago in History
Who Defines Crime, Violence, and Terrorism? A Question of Global Double Standards
Who Defines Crime, Violence, and Terrorism? A Question of Global Double Standards Top Countries in the World by Levels of Obscenity and Their Dominant Religions:
By Wings of Time about a month ago in History
Did Trump’s Policies Push America Toward a New Imperialism?
Did Trump’s Policies Push America Toward a New Imperialism? When Donald Trump entered the White House, he promised a dramatic shift in how the United States dealt with the world. Under the banner of “America First,” his administration rejected many long-standing diplomatic norms and embraced a tougher, more confrontational style. Supporters praised this approach as strength and realism. Critics, however, argued it looked like a modern form of imperialism—less about cooperation and more about control through pressure.
By Wings of Time about a month ago in History
Chezch glass bead manufacturing.
My wife Jme and I have been documenting glass bead and button production in the Czech Republic for years, if not decades, by traveling to the region and going to various factories to buy direct from the manufacturers themselves. In so doing, we have met the owners, the managers, the workers, the sales staff of all the factories in Jablonec and surrounding area where glass production has been in operation for hundreds of years, as well as glassware, chandeliers, Christmas ornaments, beads, buttons, cabochons and other miscellaneous glass products, such as perfume bottles, nail files and hat pins.. First it was the Austrian Empire, in Bohemia province, until the end of WW1 when it became Czechoslavakia, and then Sedutenland when annexed by Hitler during WW2, back to Czechoslovakia after Germany lost the war in 1945, eventually controlled and oppressed by the Soviet Union after their invasion in 1968 and now it is independent Czech Republic After the velvet revolution in 1987. Most of the glass bead and button production is in small family owned and operated cottage industry pressing huts, either located in a free standing building on the land behind the main house, or located in the main house, with the pressing machinery in a back room, and the tumblers (glorified cement mixers endlessly tumbling the pressed beads using different coursenesses of sand and grit to polish the beads) in the basement. The sales rooms and stockrooms were in front rooms for customers to come see and buy the stock, and the patio outside the front door to stock all the glass rods used to make the beads. Around all that was the living quarters for the family. old World factories with manually operated machinery or if the family was successful, electric run, maybe with one or two workers employed from outside the family. An exception to the cottage industry pressing hut and the giant communist era factory is the fire Polish faceting factory like Fiboex, which started small on a goat farm, and grew to the largest faceting factory in Jablonec, with row after row of faceting machines operated by non Czech workers, and conveyor belts of trays of faceted beads being run through large furnaces at high temperatures that heat Polish the cut facets. Noisy, damp, a more new world factory environment.Although now the working conditions are regulated by the government, it is a member of the European Union, it is still pretty much unregulated, the pressers dress in t-shirts, shorts, sandals, so hot shards of molten glass can burn them , if drops escape the machinery, no safety glasses to protect their eyes. But, they are paid a living wage, there are breaks during the day, no children toiling like third world slave labor. But the conditions are somewhat hard, poor lighting, noisy, damp, moist air, hot. It’s a factory After all. For the most part the owner and his immediate family are working in this environment, willingly, as are the workers they employ. In the larger factories which came about during the communist era of Czechoslovakia when the government nationalized most of the small cottage industry glassworks, such as Jablonex, Ornela and ZeleznoBrodskieSklo, with thousands of workers, the working conditions were harsher, wages were not of a living standard, the hours long, but the workers were given free housing, which were cheap stripped apartments, very squalid, ghetto style. Bad plumbing, bad heating in winter, poor cooling in summer. It was the worst solialist/communist system that they suffered under for decades, but everyone was equal in their misery except the elite politicians. During that time the beads and buttons were not being produced in a humane or ethical manner, even made by forced prison labor in a state run prison located outside of Jablonec. And in the west we did not know it. It was only after the velvet revolution of 1987 when the Soviet Union collapsed and Czechoslovakia was freed from communist control and the Czech Republic became independent did things improve. Now the glass industry is being run as first described. Humanely, with living wages, and better working conditions. Hundreds of self employed lampworkers sprung up and worked willingly for long hours making beads, in all the villages in the area. Piecemeal work was scattered to people living in the villages like bead stringing, or quality control inspection, packaging, and other small jobs, so everyone was involved in the glass business. It was a community endeavor.But they were working for themselves. Capitalism at its finest. That was how we found the bead production of the Czech Republic when we were importing beads and buttons, and glassware, when we started importing in the 1990s, and for the most part it hasn’t changed. The big factories like Jablonex and Zeleznobrodskiesklo went bankrupt and closed, or consolidated and become new companies like Preciosa, so that landscape is always changing, but otherwise the bead and button production is as described, so you can be assured you are supporting a good industry of the best glass beads and buttons ever made.
By Guy lynnabout a month ago in History
The First Shine. AI-Generated.
No one knows the exact name of the first person who discovered gold. There was no celebration. No written record. No announcement to the world.
By shakir hamidabout a month ago in History
The USA’s “Next Targets”?
Are These Really the USA’s “Next Targets”? Separating Fear, Facts, and Foreign Policy In recent weeks, a striking claim has circulated across social media and online discussions: “The USA’s next targets are Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, and Iran.” The statement is dramatic, alarming, and widely shared. But does it reflect reality—or does it reveal something deeper about how fear spreads during moments of global uncertainty?
By Wings of Time about a month ago in History