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minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoPaperclip can be rationalised as pragmatic, but bow about these guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_Gs-0dhOo https://ebeggin.substack.com/p/ratlines-nato-and-the-fourth-reich https://www.businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germany-post-world-war-ii-government-2016-10?r=US&IR=T Changed my view on history over the years.
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThey were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoGreece also was fascist. All of them got a place in NATO, like many nazis. They were anti-communist bcs that is the main characteristic of fascists. And the US has zero problem with that, on the contrary.
Paperclip can be rationalised as pragmatic, but bow about these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_Gs-0dhOo
https://ebeggin.substack.com/p/ratlines-nato-and-the-fourth-reich https://www.businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germany-post-world-war-ii-government-2016-10?r=US&IR=T
Changed my view on history over the years.
They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.
Greece also was fascist.
All of them got a place in NATO, like many nazis.
They were anti-communist bcs that is the main characteristic of fascists.
And the US has zero problem with that, on the contrary.