In 1938, using threats of overwhelming force, Adolf Hitler successfully annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia.                  

Since resuming the Presidency on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump has moved aggressively against Canada, Mexico and Greenland. 

Greenland is strategically significant to the United States. It sits between Russia and the eastern coast of the United States, and is the fastest way from Europe to New York.

Trump declared that the United States must own and control Greenland “for purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World.”  He has not ruled out a military takeover of the island.

Greenland

This even though the Kingdom of Denmark—a member of NATO and an American ally—holds control of the semiautonomous island.

On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his powerful Wehrmacht against the Soviet Union.

Less than two years earlier, on August 23, 1939, he had signed a “non-aggression” pact with his longtime arch-enemy, Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union. 

Since then, his army had conquered Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Greece and Yugoslavia. Hitler believed it would conquer Russia in about six weeks.

Adolf Hitler

Four years later, Hitler was dead and Nazi Germany lay in ruins.

Similarly, on February 28, 2026, Donald Trump conspired with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Israel’s mortal enemy and America’s longtime antagonist: Iran. 

Trump predicted that the war would be over in four to six weeks—the same timetable Adolf Hitler gave for the completion of his victory over the Soviet Union in 1941.

And just as “Operation Barbarossa” proved a fatal mistake for Hitler, so Trump’s latest stab at playing Generalissimo has proven a total disaster. Seven months into his war, he still has no plan for winning it or withdrawing from it without losing face. 

Meanwhile,  Iran continues to control the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20 million barrels of oil used to pass each day. That flow has been reduced to between two million and six million barrels each day.

Strait of Hormuz

This has created a worldwide spiral in oil prices—and fueled inflation in the United States and other nations. But as prices for housing, energy and food soar in the United States, Trump claims that “affordability” is a “Democratic hoax.”   

Like Adolf Hitler contemplating architectural models while Nazi Germany neared destruction, Trump focuses on vanity projects like a 90,000 square foot White House ballroom and a towering “Victory Arch” literally overshadowing Arlington Cemetery.

In Nazi Germany, freedom of the press was non-existent.

• Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels forbade editors to publish any content that insulted the Third Reich.
• The regime closed down anti-Nazi newspapers and used the SA and SS to storm offices and destroy printing presses.
• Journalists who resisted were arrested, sent to concentration camps, or forced out of the profession, particularly if they were Jewish.
• Opposition and multi-party newspapers were banned, and their printing equipment and plants were confiscated by the Nazi Party.

Joseph Goebbels

During his second administration, Donald Trump has waged an even more relentless war on the free press than during his first one. This has included:

• Routinely denouncing critical journalists and mainstream outlets as “fake news,” “enemies of the American people” and national security threats.
• Revoking press credentials and barring reporters from outlets like CNN, Politico and MS NOW from entering the White House.
• Banning Associated Press reporters for refusing to use the term “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico.”
• Filing multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuits against major news organizations such as CBS and the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump

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Those who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 knew:

• He was a man driven by greed, racism, egotism and hatred.
• He was a 34-times convicted felon for falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn “star” before the 2016 Presidential election.
• His lies about the dangers of COVID had killed at least 400,000 Americans.
• He had incited a treasonous attack on Congress to illegally remain in office as President.

None of this mattered to those who voted for him.

In “Death’s Head Revisited,” a 1961 episode of “The Twilight Zone,”  Rod Serling offered a haunting story of otherworldly revenge: 

A  former SS captain visits the ruins of the Dachau concentration camp to relive his past sadistic pleasures—and is put on trial by the ghosts of the inmates he tortured.

As usual, Serling, as narrator, gets the final word:

“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes; all of them.

“They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard.

“Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience.

“And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God’s Earth.” 

In 2016, 2020 and 2024, millions of Americans—fueled by greed, ignorance and/or hatred—cast aside Rod Serling’s timeless warning.

And voted for a man who intended to turn the Earth into a graveyard.