Phew, still don't have a user account on the birdsite, but hard to avoid all these anti-Trump rabbit hole hashtags.
This tweet is especially jarring because it's true:
You have to add the instance of that nation and that war.
America 1865. The South has never forgotten.
Germany 1933-45. The RW militias worship elements of nazi-Germany
Russia: Cold war 1945 to 1989
And again via Cold War KGB apparatchik Vladimer Putin 1999 to the present day.
Putin is a product of the Cold War. He destabilized countries for the KGB. Now he's the mobster of all mobsters in Russia leading a criminal syndicate with the resources of a country.
I am not objecting to any of that. Only that "the losers of WW2" are presently not Trump enablers/supporters. I am in complete agreement about the Civil War and Cold War references.
There were plenty of right-wing folks here in Sweden that sided with Germany during WW2, until about 1942 when it started to turn in favour of the allies and portraits of Adolf was replaced with portraits of Churchill.
We even had a government crisis and had to remove/arrest officers in the military here as they were in favour of Germany at the time. Our politicians realised that they could no longer trust these officers.
I can not find a reference to the incident, though one of the ministers in the coalition government at the time was about to erupt when this officer was speaking (I keep thinking Per Albin Hansson, but I am probably wrong).
Hmm.. Seems it was our supreme commander Thörnell and our minister of defence, Sköld, that had the blow-up as Thörnell was very positive to Germany as late as 1941. My memory is hazy on this, though I found some pointers (all in Swedish).
Fascinating. I didn't realize Sweden had its very own Quisling-type faction, but it makes complete sense that it would.
Thanks for sharing that!
@TheAbbotTrithemius
They're right on two counts.
Germany/Italy/Japan has nothing to do with Trump. (The WW2 reference is incorrect, Soviet Union was technically an ally and "winner" of that war.)