A more perfect union could not be separated?
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One of his principle campaign messages is that you can’t trust the media, esp. CNN. I’m sure some of this because he wants his followers to only trust right-wing propaganda, but he’s probably also using this hostility to the media to try to hop on as a Fox talking head or something similar as a beacon of truthiness.
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For future reference:
Libel is a written or published defamatory statement, while slander is defamation that is spoken by the defendant.
So you can have slander that is defamation and libel that is defamation, but you can’t have slander and libel without defamation.
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Mussolini made the trains run on time. Hitler just killed a lot of people in an attempt at purity.
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That’s why he’s working very very hard at the angle of the entire election being a sham. His standard line right now is that Hillary and the Democrats have rigged the whole process against him, so that when he inevitably loses, it won’t have been because he actually lost, but because it was a conspiracy.
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I think the other line about Hitler was that he was a brilliant tactician, but he invaded Russia, so he’s not that either. Just a mass murder.
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Every military decision he made was terrible terrible.
He was given the first production fighter jet in history, generals advised it to be used to shred bombers coming over the channel and regain air superiority. He demanded they put bombs on it and use it as a bomber.
Russia. Ally. Winter invasion.
He was an absolute dolt who rose to power using dummies and then did whatever he could to keep it. Political tactics, yes, but not military.
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It’s not hard… read French history and you know NOT TO INVADE RUSSIA WHEN YOU MIGHT BE THERE DURING THE WINTER.
Even then he just lucked out because of the economic situation in Germany. I doubt the nazis could have gotten nearly as many seats had there not been a depression on which Germany had been suffering under longer than the rest of Europe/US. The war reparations didn’t help, nor did the still existing anti-semetism (which was all over Europe, see the French Dreyfus affair).
Just a general mass murdering dummy, if you ask me!
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Oh heck there was a Prussian ruler who tried before the French did with the same results. Do not get involved in a land war in Asia, ever.
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Honestly, how about nowhere on Afro-Eur-Asia.
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The only problem with reading French history is that it’s all in French. He never seemed like the kind of guy interested in that sort of thing.
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You do know they have these people called “translators” right? 
But Hitler was all about the Russian anti-Jewish propaganda tracts and he hated Slavs!
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It probably says something about me that this scene from Spiderman helps me keep them straight:
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It’s possible to wage a successful* war in Europe. It’s possible to wage a successful war in Africa. And there are quite probably examples of successful wars in Asia.
*successful: confers a substantive, lasting political advantage upon the belligerent.
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Genghis Khan. I still find it cool that both the Europeans and Japanese were fighting the Khanate at the same time without being aware of each others’ existence.
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That serif font no longer suits the Trump brand. I think they should switch to Comic Sans.
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tangentially related:
The Black Death found its way through small villages and Mongol nomad settlements alike, sweeping down through cities and farm regions, through army encampments and caravans, making use of the rapid Mongol transit system of horse relays, which sped soldiers on a medieval pony express through the empire. They dashed throughout the four kingdoms ruled by the grandsons of Chinggis Khan, and plague rode with them, throughout Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, into Persia and the Crimea. From there, it spread to Genoese traders encamped around the trading city of Caffa on the Black Sea, and thence to Constantinople on the Dardanelles, into the Mediterranean, to the islands of Crete, Sardinia and Sicily, before making its way to Genoa and exploding on the European mainland.
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I guess “success” depends on ones POV. I’m not sure the dead ever find war successful.
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