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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nazi Germany kinda had to start wars because their spending wasn't 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 isn't sustainable either + the usa has a very big army. Some people would say that the usa republicans couldn't 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.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

a lot of republicans are pretty damn stupid and short sighted, including the president.

They aren't just stupid, many on the right are religiously dedicated to the idea of a judgement day and devastating war between 'good and evil'. They are convinced 'God is on their side'. 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.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

The longer term plan was to conquer other nations and plunder those.

So what Fat Hitler keeps talking about regarding Greenland and Canada