• shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How did America manage to become the continuation of the British Empire and Nazi Germany? Was it really necessary to be both?

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Yes, absolutely. For you see:

      • Being the British Empire means setting up East India Companies to manage all the colonies. Trump clearly wants one of the big oil companies to administrate Venezuela, but they seem apprehensive.
      • Being Nazi Germany means you can leverage department redundancy to keep everyone busy fighting themselves instead of you. The Nazis had several departments with similar functions, and they were more focused with gaining the Fuhrer’s favor than actually doing their jobs.