we thought they would learn after ww2. we thought nazis were gone, and that the un countries would make sure it stayed that way. we thought we were friends and could trust each other, as allies. i don't know what happened, but somehow a deep resentment built in europe towards america, a resentment that we hardly even noticed until now, but was there for a while. and all that while, we had been treating europeans as if they were the same allies we knew from the ww2 era, but it seems we were wrong. now, it seems like they are not the allies we knew from then, but the ancestors of the enemies we knew from then.. socialism has overtaken most of europe, the only thing they lack is a dictator to step in and take hold of it all, then we will see the rise of the fourth reich seriously though, i always wonder if it was right to only execute the ss members, and then try to "de-nazify" the rest of germany. all germans were nazis.. does de-nazification really work? or did they just keep their mouths shut? that's just a conspiracy theory of course, but how else can this sort of thing rise again when europe ought to know better?
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