The European region, shocked in democratic paralysis and Nazi salute-Donald Trump’s shock with a geopolitical landscape with a re-involvement, which is for many people, fascism in the 1930s, fascism in the 1930s and dangerous similarities with the West’s weak reaction.
Although a century distinguishes two ages, historians on both sides of the Atlantic are dropping the depth of Trump’s break with decades of US and European theory at the time of military growth worldwide.
John Konley, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley, said, “We go back to the 1930s because it was an important period when democracy was kept for testing and failed to stop the dictators,” said John Conlie, a historian of California, Berkeley.
“These days it is accepted that he could form a united front against Hitler and escape the war,” he told AFP.
As a case in the point, for many people, the President of Ukraine at the White House was a public slap of Trump of Zelansky, and despite the three -year invasion, his inclusive voice with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, gathered the 1938 annexation of the 1938, Germany, Germany.
The region of Hitler in the erstwhile-keyslovakia was confiscated, but was eventually accepted by European powers with the Munich agreement-which failed to blunt Fauhar’s military aspirations.
Zelancesi has voiced the same fear: that Putin will be allowed to seize the Ukrainian region to seize, he will only hug him to take other lands, such as Moldova or even NATO- and European Union members Romania.
And Trump himself is emphasizing that he will take Greenland to “a way or another” – even if the island is part of Denmark, a founder NATO member with the United States.
‘Unavoidable’ comparison
Johan Chapoutot, a French expert from Nazi Germany, said, “Comparison is unavoidable because major political players – briefly, the ruler of the world – mention themselves the development, led by the second world war, which is Nazism.”
Even before a suspected Nazi salute by Trump’s new billionaire advisor Elon Musk, the President’s firm tenure had already provoked a intensive debate on a fascist nature of his power.
In his first term, Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, said that Trump fits the “general definition of fascist”. Under Trump’s first term, the head of the US Army Joint Chief of Staff, including other East-AIDS, Mark Mile agreed.
The debate has increased only with the disregard of Trump’s Congress conferences since returning to the White House and unilaterally enhances public administration as well as foreign policy.
Robert Pasteton, an American political scientist and historian, has long opposed the use of “fascism”, saying that it is “a word that generates more heat than light”.
But he reversed his position in relation to Trump before more than half of American voters in November before his election.
Pasteton released his supporters to attack the US capital in January 2021, Pasteon, Pasteon left his supporters, as he demanded wrestling despite losing the election weeks before the election.
Pasteon told the New York Times in October, “It bubbles from below in a very worrying way, and it is like original fascism.”
“This is the real thing. This is really.”
brute force
Since returning to power, Trump’s dismissal of international law, his trade war with colleagues and enemies, and describes the national sovereignty for some historians, which is a “right” mindset that dominates between two world wars.
A French historian and Holocost expert Taal Brutman said, “There are many similar boxes about political inertia, delicateness of some accepted ideas, trample of international law and uninhabited use of force, cruelty against their colleagues.”
“There are many definitions of fascism, but if they all have a cardinal properties: it is a cruel force,” he said.
But a lot has changed in the last 100 years. Both the United States and Europe enjoy economic prosperity after World War I and Great Depression, which provides fertile land for the ruling rule of Germany and Italy.
“The strange thing is that the United States chose a man hostile to democracy, even the economy is growing,” Conlie said.
And after World War II, the international community forged institutions to ensure cooperation and to avoid bloodshed including the United Nations and World Bank.
The International Criminal Court and the European human rights court were also extended to encourage the honor of the rule of law.
“After 1945, we decided to make the world really civilized, to make the world a ‘city’ we would respect the law instead of killing each other,” said Chapatot.
But these railings have now been beaten up.
“These laws exist, but the problem is that Trump has no respect for them to surprise everyone,” Conlie said.
“The United States has not learned history lessons.”
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