'Together with Musk, Vance and Milei: Trump the “peacemaker” like Hitler the “chancellor of peace”!'
Sukla Sen
[The rather short and remarkably incisive piece below has made two very salient points:
Drawing by Sonia Mitralia
Together with Musk, Vance and Milei
Trump the “peacemaker” like Hitler the “chancellor of peace”!
by Yorgos Mitralias
Friedenskanzler, i.e. Chancellor of Peace. If we tell you that's what Hitler was called before he started the Second World War, you won't believe your ears. And yet it's true, because the image of a “pacifist” Hitler was cultivated not only by his acolytes, but also by those Europeans - and they were the majority - who liked to take his professions of faith in favor of peace at face value, because they thought that, all things considered, “Hitler was better than the Communists or the Front Populaire”.
That was almost a century ago, before a friend and propagandist of today's nostalgic Friedenskanzler (as are the German AFD, Ms. Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia, Mr. Abascal's Spanish Vox, the followers of Mr. Zemmour and incidentally Ms. Le Pen, and so many others) also presented himself as a “peacemaker” with only one ambition: to put an end to the wars in Palestine and the Ukraine! Of course, this new Friedenskanzler is Donald Trump, even though the same Donald Trump loudly proclaims that he intends to take possession, “by any means necessary”, of Canada, Panama, Greenland, Gaza and who knows where else in the world. And those who present him as such are all those who have an interest in seeing the wars in Ukraine and Palestine end as quickly as possible according to the wishes of Donald Trump and his second (?) Elon Musk: with the triumph of the genocidal Putin and Netanyahu and the extermination or ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians and Palestinians!
In short, history doesn't always repeat itself like a farce. And the affinity of the present with the - not so distant - 1930s becomes obvious when, for example, we simply replace the sacrificial Ukraine of 2025 with the sacrificial Czechoslovakia of 1938 to realize that, since virtually nothing has changed, we could very well expect a similar tragic sequence of events...
Moreover, this affinity, if not filiation, between these two so-called “peacemakers” is sometimes quite obvious. As when Mr. Trump thinks he can “solve” the Middle East question by taking possession of Gaza and driving its Palestinian inhabitants to a more or less “exotic” and far-fetched destination. If this extravagant plan by the American president reminds you of an equally extravagant plan by the Nazi regime, you're absolutely right: it's the “Madagascar Plan”, which aimed to “solve” the “Jewish question” by emptying Europe of its 11-12 million Jews, who would be forcibly transported to Madagascar, transformed into a gigantic ghetto! If this monstrous plan was never implemented, it was only because Great Britain was not defeated by the Nazis, and its fleet continued to block access to Madagascar. However, its memory is still vivid among the neo-Nazi AFD leaders, so admired by Elon Musk and US Vice President J. D. Vance, and resurfaced during their “secret” meeting with their Austrian co-thinkers in Potsdam at the end of last November, as a reference and “ideological” precursor to their current intention to chase millions of migrants and other German citizens descended from migrants to a 21st century “Madagascar”!
So, contrary to what our rulers, our media and their “analysts” claim, Trump and Musk don't improvise at all when they “surprise” us day after day with their statements, their actions and even their gestures (e.g. Musk's double Nazi salute). In fact, you only need to know a little about what Nazi leaders said and did to understand that Trump and Musk are following or even copying their example. That's how Trump copies the Third Reich's infamous need for “living space” (Lebensraum), when he declares that the Israeli population finds itself cramped in the current State of Israel, and that's why he consents to Israel's annexation of the West Bank and who knows what other regions of the Middle East over which Netanyahu and his friends claim to have a... “Biblical right”!
But what need is there for these examples as proof of their neo-fascism, when Trump, Musk, Vance and Milei are really doing everything, in front of everyone's eyes, to persuade us, beyond any doubt, that they claim to be Nazis and are working to unite under their leadership all the vermin nostalgic for fascism and Nazism around the world? Besides, isn't he Trump's second-in-command, that inenarrable J.D. Vance, who praised Hitler and Mussolini nostalgics in front of the fine flower of European rulers reprimanded by him for what's left of their anti-fascism, before he met privately with his friend, the leader of the neo-fascist AFD just a few days before the German elections? What more does it take for people on both the right and the left to stop describing Trump and even Musk as... “populists”, and their elective affinities with the Nazis as mere... “provocations” and “controversial” actions?
It goes without saying that Trump's, Musk's, Vance's or Milei's pronounced penchant for raw violence and anything reminiscent of Nazism or triumphant fascism would be of only moderate interest if it didn't endanger the lives of millions of people, the existence of entire countries and world peace. Indeed, what characterizes the “peacemaker” Trump is that his peace looks like the peace of graveyards. A peace made without and against the victims of war in both Ukraine and Palestine. A peace reminiscent of the one Hitler announced when he “unified” and “pacified forever” Europe, conquered by his Wehrmacht and subjugated by his Gestapo and SS. A pseudo-peace that will give wings to the executioners and inevitably lead to an even more general conflagration and bloodbath...
As for us, we have nothing to add to what we wrote in June 2022, when we were already denouncing our rulers who “ have the nerve to start discussing among themselves which part of Ukraine they could give up, these Western imperialists (!), to Putin, behind the backs of Ukrainians and their government!”. And we concluded with these words: “Although we have here a patent case of the most outrageous imperialist interventionism and paternalism, there are few on the left who dare to do the obvious, namely to denounce it publicly, as it deserves. And unfortunately, there are even fewer who dare to support the even more obvious and elementary right of Ukrainians – which they defend tooth and nail – to fight to the bitter end against the Russian invaders, deciding themselves freely and democratically, and without any hostile or “friendly” foreign interference, about the future of their country and the people who live there!” (1)
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1. See our article What is this strange war in Ukraine where it is forbidden to either “defeat or humiliate” Putin?
Sukla Sen
“ Oaklandsocialist comments: We may not be facing all-out fascist rule in the U.S., but the parallels with what happened geopolitically when Hitler took power are strong enough. Today’s NY Times reports on the Trump regime aligning with Putin. That would mean an alignment of two of the foremost right wing ethno-nationalist heads of state in the world. The rest of Europe would be left to the tender mercies of Putin, which is the dream of the Eurasianists like Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin and adopted by “leftists” like Vijay Prashad under the pay of Putin. Under this vision, US imperialism under the rule of the Trump/Vance/Musk triumvirate would have free hand in the Americas, which would include Greenland.”On Feb 19, 2025, at 9:58 AM, Sukla Sen <sukl...@gmail.com> wrote:Yorgos Mitralias