Ahh yes. The same “peace” that would have fallen upon France and the UK if they just let Hitler take their land.
Worth remembering that a healthy chunk of the American business elite was more than ready to support a United Nazi Europe against the scourge of Stalin's Soviet Union. Luminaries from Henry Ford to George Prescott Bush were nakedly advocating a US alliance with the Germans in an attempt to reassert western dominion over the globe, as the colonial settlement system was cracking up in the wake of WW1.
Guys like Trump and Orban aren't anything new. A business-friendly globe-spanning conglomerate has been the end game for the PNAC crowd for a very long time.
Bush exponentially grew the family fortune, making broker fees, by funneling Americans' investments in these great mining opportunities in Dachau and Auschwitz, where the labor was free!
Don't forget FDR and Mussolini were mutual fans for a while
Italy was an Allied Power in WW1, and it was assumed (for at least a little while) that they were in the same block.
Allying with Hitler wasn't the only problem with Mussolini...
I mean, we're still fucking around in Ethiopia, standing up military juntas and extracting raw materials at sub-market rates.
One of the nicest things you could say about Mussolini was that he absolutely sucked at waging war. Wish more European despots could claim the same.
Rest in peace.
Yeah, fuck that guy. ("Which one?" "Yes.")
Ah, Hungary, the Alabama of the EU
it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet
- head of NATO and EU member state
It's also a country that was on the wrong side of 2 world wars. Not the senior power, and as part of a larger country one of the times, but still in the wrong side.
Go fall from a 10th story balcony, onto a pair of bullets Orbán. You fucking traitorous piece of shit.
Fuck Ukraine!!
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