jim hetherton

🆘 “This is the pure hell of Brexit for food exporters.” Toby Ovens of Broughton Transport told MPs at the business and trade committee that Brexit has been a costly and logistic nightmare: Vets chasing lorries. Meat stuck in Calais for a month. £16,000 burned because of a stamp in the wrong place.

🔸 1. Scapegoat politics? Check. Hitler used “invasion” and “contamination”. Trump uses “invasion” and “replacement”. Same story. New cast. 🔸 2. Civilisational supremacy? Check. Hitler believed Germany had a destiny. Trump believes America must dominate Europe - economically, militarily, politically. He’s not protecting the West. He’s colonising its politics. 🔸 3. Democracy-breaking? Check. Hitler destroyed democracy from inside the system. Trump tried it on 6 January. His second term plan is a constitutional coup wearing a flag as a cape. 🔸 4. Strategy of division? Check. Hitler broke Europe from the inside. Trump uses Farage, Reform UK, Le Pen, Orbán, Meloni and the hard right to do the same. Brexit wasn’t sovereignty. It was America weakening Europe. 🔸 5. Targeting Europe itself? Check. When Trump says Europe “won’t be viable” he’s not warning us 👉he’s telling us the plan. Break the EU. Pit nations against each other. Install friendly strongmen. Control the economy. Dominate the continent. A 21st-century empire by other means. 🔸 6. The Great Replacement? It’s misdirection. The threat isn’t migrants. The threat is a geopolitical power grab dressed up as culture war. He’s not trying to “save Europe from migrants.” He’s trying to save America from Europe. 🔸 7. The most chilling parallel: Hitler was laughed at before he was feared. Trump was laughed at before January 6. And now he’s openly talking about whole nations “no longer being viable.” We’ve seen this movie. We know how it ends if no one stops it.

When Europe’s nations last fragmented and the U.S. intervened from the outside without understanding Europe’s internal dynamics, the result was: 🔥 the rise of Nazism 🔥 industrialised genocide 🔥 collapse of democracy across the continent 🔥 the destruction of European culture 🔥 world war 🆘 The EU was built precisely to prevent the political conditions the U.S. helped create between 1919 and 1939. 🇺🇸 THE USA’S ROLE IN THE RISE OF NAZISM (1919–1939) After WWI, the U.S. insisted on: •punitive reparations against Germany •high-interest 🇺🇸 loans instead of debt forgiveness •withdrawal of funds in 1929 crash It was ideological: American isolationism + Wall Street economics which produced a catastrophic chain reaction: ✔ Hyperinflation The German mark collapsed in 1923 after the U.S. backed harsh reparations demanded by France and Britain. ✔ Dependence on U.S. loans The Dawes Plan (1924) and Young Plan (1929) made Germany rely heavily on American banks. ✔ The Great Depression hits Germany first and hardest When Wall Street collapsed in 1929, U.S. lenders pulled out overnight. Result: Germany’s banking system collapsed, unemployment exploded, and democratic parties disintegrated. This economic devastation is what allowed the Nazi vote to rise from 2.6% (1928) to 37% (1932) Not bc Germans suddenly became fascists but because economic collapse radicalises societies. Major American corporations helped build the Nazi war machine 🇺🇸 corporate power played a role in: ✔ Fuel Standard Oil supplied crucial fuel additives. ✔ Automotive and military vehicles Ford and General Motors (Opel) expanded manufacturing inside Germany, producing vehicles later used in the Blitzkrieg. ✔ Computing and population registry IBM supplied punch-card systems used by the Nazi state for •census tracking •identifying “non-Aryans” •organising deportations ✔ Aviation Pratt & Whitney technology helped the Luftwaffe. These companies were not ideological Nazis they were profit-maximising 🇺🇸 multinationals operating with zero ethical limits. When 🇺🇸 exports its corporate model to Europe, democracy and culture rot. 🇺🇸 isolationism blocked early intervention that could have stopped Hitler. The U.S. refused: •to join the League of Nations •to support collective security •to defend Austria or Czechoslovakia •to guarantee European borders This left Europe fragmented - exactly what Musk and the far-right want again today. Fragmented Europe = fertile ground for extremism. 🇺🇸 eugenics directly inspired Nazi racial policy This is not fringe history it appears in: •Nuremberg Trial evidence •Nazi policymaking documents •U.S. academic histories Key facts: ✔ U.S. eugenics laws were the model for the 1933 Nazi “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.” ✔ Leading U.S. eugenicists corresponded with German racial theorists. ✔ Hitler explicitly praised American segregation and sterilisation laws. This matters today bc: •Many tech billionaires (Musk, Thiel) echo eugenics-adjacent thinking •“Human biodiversity” and “IQ realism” trace back to the same ideology •Anti-democratic movements always turn to ideas of “superior” and “inferior” populations The EU’s foundational human rights charter was designed to bury eugenic policymaking forever. After WWII, the U.S. finally understood the danger and helped create the European model Musk now wants to destroy Because: Integrated Europe = no more Nazism. Fragmented Europe = repeat of 1930s collapse.