Spot The Differences For A Free Stay!
Spot The Differences For A Free Stay!
šÆ%. the US was heavily isolationist at the start of WWII, and pretty anti-Semitic. for example, the St. Louis, a boat full of Jewish refugees, was turned away from the US and Canada in 1939 - and turned back to Europe, with many Jews eventually imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. there were also the blackshirts in the UK, who were pro-Nazi, and PM Chamberlain had a peace treaty drawn up with Hitler. and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviets, of course.
so if the Nazis had been content to murder only German, Austrian and Czech Jews, they would have gotten away with it.
on the other hand, Nazi ideology (e.g. ālebensraumā and their belief in the destiny of the Aryan race to conquer the āinferiorā races) drove them to war, to invade Poland and to break their pact with the Soviets. and they also spent tons of resources on the Holocaust, at the expense of their military.
so basically yeah, isolationist Nazis would have totally survived, but otoh Nazis arenāt isolationists.
Iām sorry š« thereās not always a happy ending. the genocide of Native Americans, for example.
take care of yourself, and take care of your trans siblings. thatās all we can really do, but maybe itās enough. ā¤ļø
Nobody else in his camp can rile up the people like he does.
Thatās what they said about Kim Il Sung. Few thought Kim Jong Il would be able to take his place. Now weāre on our 3rd generation. I think thereās enough hate whipped up, theyāll follow anyone that lets them take it out on the vulnerable
If germany wouldnāt have started the war or would engage in limited warfare then nazi germany would have existed till now.
They definitely wonāt survive until now. Little known fact that most people are unaware of post-war is that Nazi Germany was on brink of another economic collapse in 1939 because of excessive government spending. The pillage of resources from their conquered territories gave them small injection of wealth to keep themselves going for a while. Even if Nazi Germany went fully isolationist and engaged in limited war (which I think is even impossible), eventually their poor policies will cause their own demise.
Iām not saying youāre wrong, because I donāt know enough details about their economy at that time, but people have been saying that about the US economy for decades and it hasnāt happened yet (not that I think it wouldnāt under Trump, because heās really going nuts on it, butā¦).
Do you have anything you can point to that makes the case that the situation was so precarious that collapse was inevitable, or just that they were precarious (as the US has been since GWB at least)?
Economists say Trumpās policies are detrimental to the American economy. And sure enough, his policies pissed off almost everybody, even oligarchs, when the stock market crashed in early April 2025. His big beautiful bill is gutting basic welfare and government spending.
America will eventually decline as superpower (all bloated empires eventually do). As we speak, China overtook US in terms of research and development spending. However, Trumpās policies and exodus of researchers makes America less competitive, which will accelerate the countryās decline as the sole hyperpower.
so basically yeah, isolationist Nazis would have totally survived,
Everything you said was on point but this part I feel is incorrect. Nazi Germany was on the brink of bankruptcy by 1939 because of government overspending, mainly due to rearmament. Hitler felt he had to absolutely invade other countries to pillage the resources and maintain the German economy. People tend to give too much credit to the Nazis but the regime would have totally collapsed on its own if it werenāt for the war delaying the inevitable.
Hitler and the Nazis arenāt different to any other dictatorships in post-war third world countries. They are bunch of fantasist buffoons. The Nazis only got lucky they went so far because they inherited strong institutions to leech off of, particularly the legacy of the Prussian military-- the army with a state.
Trump keeps talking about annexing Canada though. Hitler didnāt need to invade Poland or any of the other nations he Blitzkrieged, but there it is.
He has fallen quiet about that though. I wonder if someone with an ounce of historical knowledge told him that if youāre going to fascist, donāt start wars at the same time.
Nazi Germany kinda had to start wars because their spending wasnāt sustainable: they had significant yearly deficits and they were always looking for ways to push forward the day that Germany would become insolvent. They stole the assets of outgroups like the Jewish minority, financially raided the banks, had the treasury print money to pay of debts, implemented price and wage controls to stave off inflation because of printing too much money, ⦠None of it was sustainable in the long term. The longer term plan was to conquer other nations and plunder those.
And very unfortunate for the world today: the spending by usa republicans isnāt sustainable either + the usa has a very big army. Some people would say that the usa republicans couldnāt possibly be that stupid to rob or invade their peaceful trade partners, but ⦠a lot of republicans are pretty damn stupid and short sighted, including the president.
a lot of republicans are pretty damn stupid and short sighted, including the president.
They arenāt just stupid, but many on the right are religiously dedicated to the idea of a judgement day and devastating war between āgood and evilā. They are convinced āGod is on their sideā. Evangelical Christian fascists have been pushing this for years, it was almost guaranteed to come to direct conflict from the course the US has been on unless there was some kind of intervention long ago.
The longer term plan was to conquer other nations and plunder those.
So what Fat Hitler keeps talking about regarding Greenland and Canada
A good book that documents this is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.
An arduous read, but vital for thinking minds nonetheless.