On this day in 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill offers his famous tribute to the RAF pilots fighting in the Battle of Britain: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” pic.twitter.com/yLGqqi4f7E
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) August 20, 2024
Day: August 20, 2024
Today in 1968, Soviet & Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush Prague’s 8-month-old pro-democracy movement. Moscow claims its forces were invited into the country and produced a dubious letter from an anonymous Czech party official appealing for help as justification. pic.twitter.com/c1Y2y7koVy
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) August 20, 2024
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV propagandists bashed the Democrats and worried about Trump’s dwindling chances to beat Kamala Harris. As usual, they pined for civil war in America and held on to their high hopes that it could start at any moment. https://t.co/mAtYJSRpAG
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 20, 2024
This morning, Taiwan’s military launched a series of missiles off the southeastern coast of Pingtung. I was among a group of journalists invited on a rare visit to a highly classified R&D base to witness the live firing exercise.
📸 by me: pic.twitter.com/tuiTdHu8Ig
— Joyu Wang (@joyuwang) August 20, 2024
Biden: “Putin thought he could take Kyiv in three days. Three years later, Ukraine is still free.”
Set aside its only two and a half years later. Kyiv is free but not whole. Biden could give Ukraine the weapons it needs to win, but he won’t.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) August 20, 2024
Biden says that when Trump was president, people were saying China will surpass the United States but “no one is saying that now.”
It’s a good line but not based on any reality. Lots of people still say that.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) August 20, 2024
Overnight, the Israeli Air Force carried out Strikes on Two Hezbollah Rocket Launcher within the Towns of Al-Mansouri and Taybeh in Southern Lebanon, that were preparing to launch against Northern Israel. pic.twitter.com/ykLr4Xso54
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 20, 2024