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  Things are happening so quickly with MAGA's illegal war that it can be a challenge to keep up with events.  As I read over my last post , I saw how I was floundering to keep up with the news.  I also saw how I unnecessarily narrowed my focus by comparing Trump's Operation Epstein Fury to Hitler's Case Blue.  The truth is that Epic Fail  is more of an amalgamation of both Hitler's greatest blunders: Operation Barbarossa  and Case Blue, as well as a smattering of other interesting parallels from World War II . In other words, this isn’t one historical blunder but a composite of every major strategic delusion of the most destructive war in human history.   Does that concern you? It should. 💥💥💥💥💥 As with Hitler believing that Stalin's Russia was so weak that a furious invasion would cause the entire country to collapse (what would come to be known as Operation Barbarosa) , Trump, who, it must be pointed out that, often read from Hitler's My New Orde...

  In the late 1920s, two Republicans, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Willis C. Hawley of Oregon decided that they had the solution to America's worsening economic situation due to what would become known as The Great Depression. Their answer was simple: tariffs. America would tax its way to prosperity - a tariff being nothing more than a tax on imported goods paid by the consumer.  Anyone with a high school education in either history or politics knows the results: an economic disaster that only worsened the depression. As  Wikipedia relates: Some countries protested and others also retaliated with trade restrictions and tariffs. American exports to the protesters fell 18% and exports to those who retaliated fell 31%.[18] Threats of retaliation by other countries began long before the bill was enacted into law in June 1930. As the House of Representatives passed it in May 1929, boycotts broke out, and foreign governments moved to increase rates against Amer...