Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that governor Janet Mills’ Maginot Line of support among Democrats has fallen. With a blitzkrieg attack, Platner has advanced to a consistent lead in polling; if the Impact Polling survey indicating Platner with a 66 to 28 percent lead is accurate, then the Vernichtungsschlacht is already complete. His stark populism and attacking Mills as part of a failed Democratic establishment proved to be a deft Bewegungskrieg and have entrapped her in a Kesselschlacht, with two months to the June 9 primary.

The Strait of Hormuz Is Not the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign

A Rescue Mission for the Ages

Entirely coincidentally, June 9, 1940 was the day Norway surrendered to Germany and the French government evacuated Paris.

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