8/8: Unconfirmed reports of disorder in the Kremlin: 8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
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8/8: Unconfirmed reports of disorder in the Kremlin: 8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/1541672798
Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversar2
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelord. From the surface of the planet Earth, we're |
| 0:09.8 | going to the surface of the planet Mars with the brave little toaster ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman |
| 0:14.9 | reporting. Bob ingenuity continues to exceed its design specifications. Is there any estimate |
| 0:22.8 | how long it can keep this happen, jump and spy and land scenario? Well, I'll tell you, John, |
| 0:31.8 | perseverance, it's boss continues to do its work on the floor to zero crater. And ingenuity right |
| 0:39.6 | now is kind of been promoted into an operational mode, even though it was designed as only an engineering |
| 0:45.6 | experiment. They are maintaining it under the actual idea of what these things would be used for, |
| 0:52.9 | it's a scout for the rover. And so they have announced that what the 19th flight of ingenuity will be, |
| 1:01.6 | it's going to be a short flight, retracing the steps that both the rover and the helicopter |
| 1:09.3 | took for the first six months of their travels in the zero crater. It's continuing that retracing. |
| 1:16.8 | But they are planning to use it down the road. They have now announced their goals and their goals |
| 1:23.7 | are that they're going to try to continue to fly ahead of perseverance to scout the terrain that |
| 1:32.1 | perseverance will need to travel across as it moves towards that large delta of material that |
| 1:38.6 | flowed into zero crater. And what's the reason they picked this location? Now, the question is, |
| 1:44.9 | what route they're going to take to that delta? The announcement here was not entirely clear. |
| 1:50.8 | It kind of suggested that they might take a shortcut. I suspect that's probably wrong on that. |
| 1:57.9 | They're probably going to follow their plan. I've got a map on behind the black, which not only |
| 2:01.6 | shows you where the rover and ingenuity has traveled, but it also shows in a dashed line the plan |
| 2:06.7 | to route. And I think they're going to probably follow that right through. Bob, about perseverance and |
| 2:13.2 | its mission status right now, all as well, according to your report. So I just want to establish at the |
| 2:20.3 | beginning of 22, what do we expect it to achieve going forward? Are there are there big missions or |
| 2:26.5 | we're still doing the exploring? It's giving us these great photographs, but what else is the mission? |
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