The Sun Sets on the Transatlantic Dream

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This paragraph and my response:

It is worth recalling that America’s previous withdrawal from the continent created a fatal opening for radical ideologies and hateful propaganda. Under Hitler and the Nazis, extreme nationalists, glorifiers of violence and racism, enemies of democracy, and ardent supporters of dictatorship decided that their moment had come. The Nazis seized power and deliberately brought on WWII, plunging Europe into the abyss.

For me, the current illusion the US autocrats (read GOP) are operating under is that a wider war between Russia and Europe won’t involve the U.S.. The isolationism of the 30s and the America First movement carried the same illusion. History has shown that the red tide of war will cross the Atlantic and lap at the feet of Americans regardless of how many “make America great again” bromides the Trumplican party serves to the public.