blackjack21 wrote:Hitler didn't really want war with Britain, just as Wilhelm didn't.
Yet it inevitably was going to happen, despite Hitler's feely-feelings. Most people seem to have a sort of irrational desire to cling to every throwaway comment or musing by Hitler, as though it means anything. Hitler wished for a world in which the British Empire would be on his side. He did not get that world, because so long as Britain's ruling class were big financier capitalists, they were going to laugh him to scorn and join their colleagues in New York City and Washington DC. Because that's where their trajectory was headed to.
If it sounds strange that I would make that criticism, it's because there is more to Axis decision-making than Hitler, and Hitler was no infallible. Sometimes his contribution to the decision-making process was actually negative and caused bad results.
The
only real way to avert war with the British Empire, would have been if a domestic petite-bourgeoisie movement
(read: Fascism in Britain) had completely taken over the British government. That did not happen because the March on Cable Street failed, because Oswald Mosley unfortunately failed to capture the hearts and minds of the British people, and because the British government put Oswald Mosley in jail along with his entire party.
After that happened, Hitler should have realised that Britain was going to be his enemy and that there literally nothing he could do other than to wait for the war to be inevitably declared. But since Hitler was a sentimental man - most men are like that it seems - he couldn't just say, "oh fuck it, and fuck them, prepare to fight", instead he had to waste time imagining about things that obviously were no longer possible on the eve of war.
I would even speculate that the mistake at Dunkirk - and by 'mistake' I mean the mistake where the Germans allowed the British Expeditionary Force to get out alive - was
not just because of the map falsely showing the incorrect terrain for the tanks in front of them. The map showed a marsh, but anyone could've just gone forward to scout the area and see that the ground was in fact dry as a bone and firm for driving German tanks on, if they really wanted to drive forward. Rather, the other factor in the mistake was that Hitler showed mercy to his mortal enemies. Every British soldier ought to have been captured or shot that day, but because there was a little bit of mercy in Hitler's heart in the middle of a war, they escaped, the entire heart and brain of the British Army's leadership escaped with them, and
many many people in Axis died at the hands of the Allies later because he showed
mercy to those British enemies at Dunkirk.
German and Japanese children burned to death in their homes because Hitler maintained affectionate feelings for his opponents even after hostilities had commenced. It would have been very nice if someone had pointed this problem out to him so he would stop exhibiting that behaviour, but I assume no one noticed this error until it was manifesting as an incoherent and confusing order at Dunkirk.
It could almost be a sort of Shinto or Zen parable about what happens when you start showing mercy to people who have made themselves into the enemy.
blackjack21 wrote:I suspect that's why Rei's opinion is so vitriolic in its antipathy to capitalism. Rei is mixed race. To Rei, it's about capitalism, not race as much. But to Hitler it was about race.
I'm Anglo-Japanese, but to me it is equally about race and about capitalism. I just don't wear the race element on my sleeve in a vulgar fashion, because the race element is the really easy part. It is very easy for me to talk about racial tensions, but it takes more effort to do criticism of capitalism so I focus on that more.
blackjack21 wrote:Hitler saw Britain and America as Aryan too. He made no real distinction there.
Hitler opportunistically changed the definition of the 'Aryan' umbrella
multiple times. Its definition seemed to gradually expand to embrace most of the European landmass.
Regarding Britain, the sentiment he had was irrational, seeing as it didn't align with what was actually happening to him, and he'd have been better off just accepting that not all 'Aryans' were going to support his plans. Much like how Japan accepted that not all 'Asians' were going to support the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Regarding America, it was actually Hitler who claimed that America's heart was actually "Jewish" and "Negro". I have no idea what he meant by that, but it was probably that he actually hated it so much that he didn't even want to admit that America was a monstrosity created
by Anglo-Saxons at the start.
blackjack21 wrote:As IQ increases, the standard deviation among the population group declines. So Asians have the highest average IQ, but the lowest standard deviation.
Yep, I've talked about all that a lot before.
Regarding Hitler's waffling about Japanese innovation - or lack thereof - he would be proven wrong to his face on that, during the war itself. His wrongness would be demonstrated by the fact that Japanese aerospace engineers eventually overtook their German counterparts. It should've only been expected that this could happen, but for some reason Hitler didn't expect it.
blackjack21 wrote:However, Hitler's war on the Jews ultimately put him at war with the banking cartels. As I see it, Hitler should have been more like Metternich or Bismarck: he never should have invaded Poland.
Then he would've just lost everything automatically. Metternich ultimately was revealed to have been a complete waste of everyone's time, and Bismark as well.
blackjack21 wrote:A "Jewish-Marxist stock-exchange Press" seems like a contradiction in terms, or the idea that international finance is inherently Jewish in nature and Jewishness is inherently Bolshevik.
Those are indeed contradictions in terms. It's okay to point out when Hitler is actually being incoherent. Another instance where I will point out incoherence in Hitler's writing is where he describes the liberals as 'strong' at one moment, and then a paragraph later they are also 'weak'. Will he make up his mind?
It's said that the Germans and Japanese had a few clashes over these issues, because his Japanese counterparts had very little patience for this sort of thing, a lack of patience that I probably inherited from the fact that I approach this from an Asian direction in the first place.
Adolf Hitler sees America as a wayward child that has been seized by Jews and black people. Hideki Tojo sees America as Anglo-Saxon schemers deliberately in league with Anglo-Saxon and Jewish financiers who run the country. Tojo is correct.
blackjack21 wrote:Rei argues that Churchill was stupid in so far as not seeing America as a threat, but what about Hitler? He apparently saw that the bankers had influence on British and US foreign policy, but not what it would yield in terms of war financing, or he would never have attacked Poland so early on.
Well, if he had waited until later, then Britain would have been even more ready for him, and the USSR would have actually been able to finish re-organising their army in time to meet him.
A lot of people don't know that Britain was preparing to fight Germany even while Chamberlain was still Prime Minister. And that Joseph Stalin was planning to pre-emptively attack Germany as well. He was pre-empted by Germany because the Nazis acted first.
The mistake they made was that the pre-empted too late. The pre-empting should have happened in the spring prior to when it actually happened. However, some logistical or manufacturing problems caused them to delay they attack, and this meant that winter caught up with them.
blackjack21 wrote:Well, that's true. However, that doesn't change the fact that Hitler was a racist, and he did not see Asians as Aryan.
I never claimed he wasn't.
blackjack21 wrote:So at the end of the day, Hitler would likely have to have opposed to equality before the law too.
The only Axis country to test that framework was Japan, which allowed female advisers to assist in crafting various state policies. For example, the plan for equal recognition of matrilineality and patrilineality in children, was an idea that was tabled in Fascist Japan
(this was not enacted before the war's end and would re-appear later), and the most obvious one of all was the 'wage differential of zero'
(achieved during the war), which was what you would now call 'equal work for equal pay'.
Japan was, as far as I know, the only country in the conflict that paid women the same amount for a day's work as it paid men.
blackjack21 wrote:Yes, Nazism would have to eradicate Christianity, because equality and compassion were diametrically opposed to Nazi ideology.
Yes, among other reasons.
blackjack21 wrote:However, some of what he adopted was also Western. Eugenics was born in America, not Nazi Germany.
Yet America by historical necessity had to turn against eugenics.
blackjack21 wrote:Social Darwinism was born in England, not Nazi Germany.
Yet Britain also turned against that.
blackjack21 wrote:Attacking Poland was a huge mistake.
As I said before, attacking Poland
too late, was the mistake.
Had Germany not attacked Poland, it would have simply been steamrolled by the USSR later, because the USSR was already going to attack Germany anyway, they were simply arranging their army for that eventuality.