World war II began with a pact between two major dictatorships. In 1939 Hitler and Stalin joined together to destroy Poland. Isn’t it possible that the next world war will involve a similar pact between dictators?

People do not read history as they should, and do not recognize the pattern of tyranny, the classic behaviors of a tyrant. They look at someone like the American president, and they dislike what he is doing, or they think that “wicked oil companies” are behind him, or other such nonsense, and they imagine they are seeing the evil of their time at work. But there is neither moral nor strategic sense in their view. The totalitarian left exists in every country, and it exists in America. The oil companies merely bring you cheap energy, with increasing friction from environmentalist groups.

You think the bad policies of Washington are evil? How lamentable, indeed. Like the Germans before Hitler, we are so busy vilifying Weimar that we fail to see the rise of the black swastika and the red star. The American Republic is imperfect and its policies are not what they should be. But this does not mean there aren’t worse policies out there, and worse countries. A short while ago the defense spokesman of the British Conservatives, Mr. Liam Fox, told the House of Commons that Russia was rapidly rearming while “the eyes of the West have been elsewhere.” Now let us consider on which side our bread is buttered. And let us also consider what this Russian move signifies.

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