Musical Wanderer

Twenty-first century equivalent of unrestricted submarine warfare? A little over a century ago, the United States joined Britain and France in their war against Germany.  Many Americans in and out of government had sympathized with the Allies in their grinding war and were outraged by the murder of civilians in Belgium and Northern France by occupying German forces.  What finally encouraged those recalcitrant to enter the war were the revelations that Germany was encouraging Mexico to join in the war against the US and the German decision to allow unrestricted submarine warfare against ships at sea.  Contemporary laws of war codified in treaties in the late nineteenth century stipulated that civilian ships could not by sunk without warning.  Germany's adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare unleashed submarines (U-boats) to sink any ship at sea without regard to combatant status or cargo. German WWI Submarine and sinking merchant ship Fast forward to the present d...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced new changes to the world's maps. The nations of the Caucuses will have new names that President Trump has used on several occasions during his term. Armenia will be named Albania and Azerbaijan will by named Aberbaijan. This is a follow up to the renaming of the Gulf of America earlier in President Trump's second term. The Press Secretary cautioned that any producer of maps which does not adopt the new guidelines will lose all government contracts and be investigated by FBI for any possible improprieties. Google Maps has announced it is in the process of altering its software to incorporate the changes. News organizations which do not adopt the new guidelines will lose licenses and face prosecution by DoJ. Sources from ABC and CBS say that the new guidelines will be followed effective today, thanking the White House for the clarification of the century old nations' names. Officials in Tirane, the capital of the nat...