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2. Associated Press, “US and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to ‘take over your government,’” February 28, 2026. Includes Trump’s recorded remarks and Netanyahu’s statement.
3. “Operation Himmler,” historical documentation of staged German border incidents preceding the 1939 invasion of Poland.
4. “Invasion of Poland (1939),” archival and scholarly accounts of Germany’s September 1, 1939 invasion and its domestic political effects.
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6. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). Source of the admonition “Do not obey in advance.”
7. Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning (New York: Harper, 2018). Definition and analysis of authoritarian rule suppressing opposition and criticism.
8. Lawrence Freedman, The Official History of the Falklands Campaign (London: Routledge, 2005). Account of Argentina’s 1982 invasion and the political consequences of defeat.