01-11-2021, 09:19 AM
History moves slowly throughout most of a Crisis, but toward the end the glacial pace breaks and history moves fast. Consider that when the Wehrmacht was at its greatest distance (Krasnodar and Stalingrad, and Nazi units had planted a swastika flag on Mount Elbrus on the current Russian-Georgian border) it was closer in time to defending Berlin than it was to the invasion of Poland. Blunders and miscalculations play their role.
Events of January 6 suggest that political change can be sharp and sudden. The putsch of Trump supporters, had it succeeded in its objective, would have established a Trump dictatorship. Nullification of an election and suppression of the opposition make the dictatorship possible and certain.
Events of January 6 suggest that political change can be sharp and sudden. The putsch of Trump supporters, had it succeeded in its objective, would have established a Trump dictatorship. Nullification of an election and suppression of the opposition make the dictatorship possible and certain.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.