“I’m sure everyone is tired of parallels being drawn to the 1930’s, but I can’t help but see alarming similarities.”
In the 1930s the best way to understand what was to come was to read Adolph Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (My Struggle). To understand a potential for WW3, a valuable source is the book below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics [This book by a man many call “Putin’s Brain” was published in 1997, and Putin has made it required reading in Russian military colleges. It lays out a step by step process for taking over all of Western Europe, and then moving on to the rest of the world. Very troubling is his recipe for destroying America:
“In the Americas, United States and Canada:
* Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
Is this why the past decade has seemed especially maddening aand confusing in the US?
There's a great deal more scary stuff to be found in the Wiki summary of this book!
"Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow–Berlin axis".[9]"
"France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition"."[9] "The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.[9]"
"Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be "donated to Murmansk Oblast".[9]" "Estonia should be given to Germany's sphere of influence.[9]"
"Latvia and Lithuania should be given a "special status" in the Eurasian–Russian sphere, although he later writes that they should be integrated into Russia rather than obtaining national independence.[9]"
"Belarus and Moldova are to become part of Russia, not independent.[9]"
"Poland should be granted a "special status" in the Eurasian sphere. This may involve splitting Poland between German and Russian spheres of influence.[9]"
"Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, "Serbian Bosnia" and Greece – "Orthodox Christian collectivist East" – will unite with "Moscow the Third Rome" and reject the "rational-individualistic West".[9]"
"Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (compromising of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.[9]"
And that's just for Europe. He also talked about a "Russia-Tehran axis", which is exactly what we're seeing now.