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US: Extended Russian deployment part of invasion 'playbook' Russia on Sunday rescinded earlier pledges to pull tens of thousands of its troops back from Ukraine's northern border, in a move that U.S. leaders warned put Russia another step closer to launching an invasion of Ukraine. Read more >

Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward The Russian president is leveraging his country’s reconstituted military might to force the world to reckon with his demands after having complained for years that he was being ignored. Read more >

Putin may go to war to capture Ukraine; with Belarus, he did it without firing a shot Belarus announced Sunday that Russian forces would remain in the country after massive military drills ended, in a move that opposition figures said surrendered the country’s independence to Moscow without a shot being fired. Read more >   ‘Nobody deserves to be forgotten’: Orangeburg, SC, WWII veteran rests in cemetery a world away A white marble cross marks the grave of Sgt. Verdun Durant Smith of Orangeburg, S.C., one of more than 5,000 Americans who died in World War II and are interred at a cemetery more than 4,000 miles away. Read more >   Zelenskyy rips the West for inaction as shelling makes Russia-Ukraine war seem increasingly imminent Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy forcefully demanded stronger actions from world leaders as the threat of full-scale attack by Russia intensifies amid increased shelling in the eastern separatist regions of his country. Read more >

Calm prevails at Poland-Ukraine border despite growing fears People in Poland, which was controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, are following the news of Russia's military buildup with concern. Read more >   Fighter jets scramble to examine mysterious orb over Hawaii, military officials say The object seen over Kauai on Monday, Feb. 14, appeared to be an unmanned balloon with no identification markings, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, Hawaii’s adjutant general, said. Read more >   Mainers among them, ‘Ghost Army’ tricked Nazis to give Allies an edge Soldiers in the Ghost Army were instructed to use their brains to mislead and deceive the German army, including by pretending to be a much larger and better-equipped fighting force. After the war ended, the unit’s soldiers were sworn to secrecy, records were classified and their equipment was placed in storage. Read more >   China was a brutal communist menace; in 1972, Richard Nixon visited anyway It was Feb. 21, 1972, and as stunned observers looked on, the hard-line, anti-communist president was taken away in a black limousine to meet the ruthless champion of global revolution. Read more >   Air Force officials: Racism in Cheyenne, Wyo., schools, businesses Col. Catherine Barrington, the commander of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, discovered not only was her command chief master sergeant encountering racist behavior, but so were families and their students off-base. Read more >   A 91-year-old North Korean loyalist’s lonely battle against a long-dead US general During the Korean War, Ahn Hag-sub was a devoted 22-year-old communist serving in a North Korean militia unit. Seven decades later, he still hates the Americans, and their wartime leader, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Read more >

 

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