People who balked at calling Trump Hitler need to come correct

......nothing has yet restrained the man who just openly mused about his ability to unilaterally attack and invade other nations with the intention of controlling their government or national resources, some of them democratic allies, from using our military forces to abduct and rendition the Venezuelan leader to the U.S. while demanding their government kowtow to his political demands as he vows to enable corporations to rape their land and rob them of their resources behind his use of military force.

Independent:

This idiocracy has striking similarities to the Nazi movement that Hitler advantaged to lauch his own military ambitions to seize other countries' territory, just because he could.

When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. By overturning the treaty, the German government sought to incorporate ethnically German territories into the Reich. Hitler moved to extend German power in central Europe, annexing Austria and destroying Czechoslovakia in 1938-1939._

Like Hitler wanted to militarily dominate Europe, Trump wants to be king of the Americas, and he's not wrong in thinking that there's no actual barrier right now to his use of our nation's military force to kill, maim, and threaten vulnerable nations into submission.

The rub is that ambition isn't limited to the U.S.. Indeed, it's been successive governments since WWII which have adhered to principles outlined in international agreements, like the The North Atlantic Treaty, signed on April 4, 1949, established the framework for collective defense and security in the North Atlantic area.

It was signed by the United States and several Western European nations, including Denmark, who Trump is now threatening by intimating he'll take their Greenland by military force if it's not surrendered to him; a treaty ironically intended to promote stability and prevent aggression in the region.

Trump is complaining that Russia and China are milling around Greenland, but the U.S., now under Trump, isn't even advantaging the land that's been made available to us by the country to police with our military forces.



Emboldened by his snatch-and-grab n Venezuela, Trump and his toadies are forcing independent nations in the region into defensive positions which are completely unnecessary, except in the face of what is, effectively, a potential military threat from the United States to their safety and independence.



While there may well be no effective counter right now to these intentions and actions, the political landscape that enables Trump in these Hitler-esque military assaults on other nations isn't a static one. We have an opportunity, along with a deep institutional memory, to roll back this autocratic imperialism.

It's a matter of national will that needs to be infused with already established understandings about the folly and danger of 'might is right' attitudes and actions used by the US to coerce other countries to bend to our self-interested will.



There are similar understandings between other nations which Trump aims to smash through and undo with his 'doctrine' and practice of Nazi-esque military expansionism abroad, precipitated by a Hitler-esque attack on minorities and immigrants in this country.

We're at an inflection point, and we're an election away from a tenuous hope that we can pull the nation back from Trump's autocratic lurch of our nation's military into the madness of coups and destabilization of governments abroad like we're Germany in 1938.