9/7 Scholz very effectively uses Biden as key witness to support his decision not send 🇩🇪Marder or Leopard tanks to 🇺🇦 accusing proponents of irresponsible solo trips. Unless Biden publicly states US not opposed to 🇩🇪sending 🇩🇪 made tanks things won't move./
8/22 On this day in 1968 the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, with minimal Western reaction. Less than four years later, Nixon was in Moscow to launch detente. Many things happened in between, not least the border war between China and the USSR (March 1969)./