Trumpet Hour: Germany’s Quiet Pursuit of an EU Army, Russia to Host FIFA World Cup, the Complications of Step-families, and More

• European nations recently made a very public agreement to begin to unifying their militaries into a single European army. But an underreported story is all of the work Germany is doing quietly on its own to create such an army.
• Russia is scheduled to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup this summer. A look at history shows how Russia has used high-profile sporting events like this to further its geopolitical ambitions.
• Families in America are 66 percent bigger than they used to be. Why? Because of divorce. More and more people have step-parents, step-children and other step-family members. This can create complications in family life—something worth considering before getting involved in them, and handling with real care and maturity once you’re in them.
• And we’ll conclude with a few words about why people today aren’t marrying as much as they used to.

Links

• German Militarization
• “Europe’s Detailed Military Planning”
• “German Army Continues to Swallow Its Neighbors”
• “Germany Quietly Working to Unite European Militaries”
• “Why the Trumpet Watches Europe’s Push Toward a Unified Military”
• “The Remarkable Identity of the German People”
• Russian Game-Playing
• “Vladimir Putin to Use 2018 World Cup to Score His Own Goals”
• The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’
• Effects of Divorce
• “Divorce Brings Damaging Increase to Families”