What would Nazism in the 21st century look like? My good friend, the late Richard Nadler, remarked to me in the 1990’s that when communism fell, he didn’t anticipate the rise of national socialistic movements which we are seeing in China, Russia, much of the Middle East starting with Iran and including Hamas in Gaza strip. There are degrees of National socialism, or you can use the term fascism to describe these governments.
What we are witnessing in the Middle East is simply out right Nazism without the goose steps, but the goal of Iran, Hezbollah and Hama is the elimination of Israel and a second Jewish Holocaust. There is nothing but hatred and for Israel there is no compromise with this present governing body in the Gaza strip and Iran is about as close as you get to Hitler vision of the Jews.
This is not about a land dispute but something more sinister, Hamas and Iran want to wipe every last Jew off the face of the earth. They attacked a musical event organized to promote peace between the Palestinian and massacred them. If you are a secular Jew, a liberal Jew, an orthodox Jew, it doesn’t matter, they will kill you. They slaughtered babies and beheaded them afterwards, they rape women before torturing and killing them, then paraded their naked bodies in the street. This is evil and starting us in the face.
This century has featured an attack on the more democratic and plural world order from Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and Hamas is nothing more than extension of Tehran. The world is a darker place for it In Russia and China, depending upon how you define National Socialism or fascism, certainly Russia and China can fit both descriptions. While both companies “allow” private companies to exist, they only exist at the behest of the government, to follow the government dictate and goals. Billionaires serve the state just as corporations in Nazis Germany and Fascist Italy served Hitler and Mussolini. While Russia and China have not shown the same wiliness to kill off an entire race like Hamas, they have no qualm about using forces to punish those in their way. Just ask the Ukrainians and Uhgars in China.
How does a modest foreign policy deal with aggressive nations without getting America troops involved in endless struggle? The first objective is to understand our enemies and their goals. Hamas and Tehran have been very clear about their view on Israel, and Putin has made it clear, that the collapse of the Soviet Empire was major mistake, and he has done what he can to destabilize NATO and rebuild the Russian empire including the Ukraine. We can’t forget that in 1994, the Budapest accord was designed to protect the sovereignty of Ukraine if Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. When Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014, Russia violated their promise to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and Obama administration allowed the agreement to be broken nor did the Obama administration view Ukraine as our national interest since it was not part of NATO.
Arming the Ukrainians to fight their own war is not the same as involving US troops. Certainly, as I stated, we may be at the time to change our objectives to a peace treaty that pretty much leave close to the 2014 lines in place in exchange for Ukraine being part of NATO. This does accomplish the following, Ukraine stopped Russian objectives of splitting NATO and Putin re-establishment of a Russian Empire. The second benefit is that we now have an army of 250,000 men, trained, to keep the peace in Central Europe added to NATO and allows United States more flexibility in where we put resources, including working with allies in the Pacific.
In the Middle East, let the Israelis take care of Hamas and maybe Hezbollah. This will hurt Iranian goals to destabilize the Middle East, go back to the Trump policy of sanctions and hurt the Iranian government economically as we were doing before and strengthen the alliances of Sunni Arabs and Israel. We won’t need to be involved militarily in the Middle East since this alliance can hold the line and pursuing a policy of energy independence gives us leverage to influence the oil/natural gas markets plus gives us more markets to export.
America First doesn’t mean we ignore bad actors, and it does mean we will use force to protect our national interest. Conservative and Republicans must understand the world is a dangerous place and yet, understand due to our present economic situations, we are limited in what we can do so we need to be clear what those objectives are. It also means building alliances that protect our national interest without involving our troops while allowing us more options to defend what is our national interest.
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