Eighty years ago, the bloodiest battle in human history ended. The German army surrendered to the Soviets at Stalingrad. More than one million human beings were killed in six months of fighting along the Volga River.

The defeat ended Hitler's totalitarian expansion, and 28 months later, he committed suicide.

Today we have Hitler's soul mate, Putin, trying to expand totalitarianism to Ukraine, a country conquered by the Nazis and located fairly close to Stalingrad, which is now called Volgograd. It's almost exactly the same story we saw in the 1940s; a brutal dictator waging war because he wants to see death and destruction. Putin loves that.

In the Pacific, we also have a similar threat from Communist China. The dictator Xi would like to annex Taiwan as the Chinese have done with Tibet.

Back in 1943, Tojo and the Japanese fascists were well on their way to a fiery defeat. The American Navy and Marines pushed the Rising Sun back after a series of bloody fights. All told, more than 30 million people died worldwide in World War II.

Isn't it ironic that the world is facing like-minded threats in 2023? Hitler and Tojo were savages. So are Putin and Xi. They both live to subjugate humanity.

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