In fact, there was a vociferous group of Nazi supporters that held large rallys in some parts of the U. S. before the war.

Indeed. Vincent Price was “brownlisted” by the government before WWII because he took part in several fundraisers organized to raise funds for the Spanish Nationalists and later for anti-Nazi movements before the Nazis were deemed bad by the US government.

Given the affection for right-wing authoritarian actions and the support of nazis Trump and many supporters (including some who post here) display, the idea of being considered a threat because you oppose hatred should no longer be considered a thing of years gone by.

I very much appreciate your reply and the knowledge you impart.

They were only in Western Europe for a couple of years, not long enough to do a proper job. Hitler rushed the war with Soviet Union because he was inspired by the early fall of France and withdrawal of the British to go after the room and resources of the USSR. He’s signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin but planned to break it because he considered Germany’s destiny to be in expanding its population and industry into Eastern Europe and using what slavic peoples left alive as slaves. (They were subhumans fit only for slavery in his ideology.) After the fall of France, Hitler thought that a surprise attack against the inferior people of the USSR would be even easier.

Hitler’s pact with Stalin meant they could divide Poland between them — but it wasn’t meant to be permanent pact (on Hitler’s part) and the alliance with Japan was an attempt to get the USSR into a two-front war with Japan on the east and Germany on the west, when Germany was ready. Like Germany, Japan was racist and expansionist, and had been fighting with the USSR off and on since the 1905 war. It didn’t work out because the Japanese Army was trying to subdue China and had enough experience with the Soviet military to avoid a full-scale war with them.

Re: “I note that USA wasn’t overly concerned with Nazism. Not enough to go to war over.”

True that. In fact, there was a vociferous group of Nazi supporters that held large rallys in some parts of the U. S. before the war. The U. S. population was more likely to be averse to the communists. The Russian Revolution had only been a bit over 30 years previously and Germany was anti-communist and masquerading as a normal but revitalized country. It fooled a lot of people. There were also a lot of people in the U. S. with roots in Germany (and others in Italy) and at the time, the U. S. as a whole was against getting embroiled in another European war so soon after WWI (or ever again).

Then, the Japanese decided to knock out the U. S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (Dec. 8, Australian time). Being racists, they thought the U. S. would negotiate a peace that would free the Japanese to establish its own version of an Asian and Oceanic empire. But, reality is what actually happens while you are busy making other plans.

You are still a victim-playing hypocrite Rick.

What was it again? Oh yes:

“go back to your fucking country.”

That’s rightwing racism enabled by Trumpian rhetoric in action at a restaurant. What where you whining about again? Oh yes, people expressing revulsion at rightwingers in restaurants. You can’t really blame them for their disgust, you know. Especially as they were trying to eat.

I hope they find this person quickly.

We don’t know if the person is a right winger, a left winger, a left winger pretending to be a right winger or a right winger pretending to be a left winger pretending to be a right winger. I sure hope I got that last one right – I was getting confused as I was typing it.

Anyway – once we find out who sent these bombs we will know which of the many possibilities is actually the true one.

Until then we will just have to wait and see (that was for BBD).

I’ve been commenting on the demise of the US American empire for two years. It seems that Putin himself has now felt that his job has been done, via the agency of his useful puppet Trump, and has just publicly declared the same thing:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-trumpets-end-us-world-212054291.html

The US experiment was nice whilst it lasted.

So I really think that this may have been engineered by someone on the Trump team to be made to look like a Democrat designed false flag op. If that is the case, we should know who the bomber patsy is pretty quickly, and he will be set up to look like a Dem.

“Since we don’t know who really sent these pipe bombs”

No we don’t, and I didn’t imply that we did (I know you most likely realize this, but some posters here have a habit of misrepresenting what others write.

You did not. It was me that said ‘rightwing lunatics’. Perhaps I got ahead of the facts, but as dear old RickA likes to say, we shall see. Of course I might be wrong and it was the Russians after all 🙂

The more I think about it the more I realise Germany was fucking nuts. I mean, of course they were nuts, but they were stupid nuts. If ya so nationalistic, why expand? That’s nuts.
Carry out internal genocide, which noone else cares about, and set up ya country how ya want it, and, well, that’s it.
Fucking nuts to expand and invade places when no one gives a shit what you do in the privacy of your own territory.
Ain’t that right Belgium.

 “their homes can become fortresses because they’ve got a cellar full of guns. ”
Lol. It’s the most naive thinking.
Get firehose and flood the loonies out.
Slowly and safely over a few hours.
People are so stupid in their fantasies.