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White House Correspondents’ Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinner (www.cnn.com)

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Summary

The White House Correspondents’ Association canceled comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining appearance at its annual fundraising dinner.

The decision follows concerns over Ruffin’s anti-Trump comments and growing tensions with the Trump White House, which has restricted press access and pool assignments.

The association’s board voted unanimously for the change, seeking to avoid political division.

This shift mirrors its 2019 approach, when historian Ron Chernow spoke instead of a comedian amid similar Trump-era scrutiny.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Germany's military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain's defence also bought time for Germany's offence.

If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.

The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.

https://youtu.be/4AA0lWwTXNc

"Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France." Narrator, 8:10

"A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn't even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front." Narrator, 12:40

"If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks." General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

At the start of the second world war, Germany was much less mechanized than other countries. I think the US had one car for every five people, the UK one car for every 10 people, France won car for every 15 people, and Germany one car for every 30 people. Something like that.

The Germans used more horses in World War II than they did in World War I.

The thing was, what they did have they used effectively, including using radios for communications, which none of the other countries were doing at the time.