Fighting The Fourth Reich

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(08-21-2017, 10:31 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(08-21-2017, 08:55 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(08-21-2017, 06:40 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: My usage of Fourth Reich is alluding to World War 3 as unfinished business from World War 2.

Of course this new Axis is not centered in Germany.

However, it is the confluence of the Red and Brown ... of two Germanic ideas  .... which is the basis for this new incarnation of the shape shifting monster.

So your use of this particular title is based on a nothing burger.  There is no unfinished business from World War 2.  The Allies won and demanded and got unconditional surrender.  That you've not moved on from 1945, not withstanding.

As for a battle between Red and Brown, that is to be expected.  What passes for a left these days is unmitigated communism, often of the Trotskite stripe, and as such fascism is going to arise.  Fascism is the reaction to communism and both are inherently flawed.

And.... the circle is now complete. 

Mob violence is such a drag.
--- Rags

America needs to avoid becoming an Evil Empire or part of an authoritarian Moscow-Washington or Beijing-Washington Axis.

As an Evil Empire, America risks facing a Berlin-Tokyo-Brasilia-Delhi Axis that has the potential for defeating and partitioning America because that alliance won't commit genocide or plunder liberated countries. The thug Axis alliance gave even the defeated cause to fight back. Yes, America is an Empire -- but it has been far more effective as an Empire of Liberty. An Evil Empire (and Donald Trump is evil, as shown by his mealy-mouthed response to political thugs who tried to revive Nazi-like ideology or adapt it to old American trends).

The sort of America that has political prisoners (Donald Trump is vindictive enough to have them, except that the courts and law enforcement won't go along) and commits war crimes (senior Army, Navy, and Air Force officers will not go along) is the sort most likely to be defeated by a lethal coalition. After all, it was the weak nation of playboys (as Hitler saw them) that marched into Dachau and Mauthausen to put an end to the nightmare of the most Evil Empire in existence.

History moves far faster in recent centuries (the partitions of Poland in the late eighteenth century are the first portent) and really-fast in any 4T. Incompetence and cruelty are even more destructive than ever.