I'd also like to add that hitler was very specific about his desire to emulate the US model of colonialism: and do to eastern europe, what the US had already done to its native peoples.

The only difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny, is that bourgeois democracy was far more effective at indigenous genocide than fascism was.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-american-dream-hitler-modeled-his-concept-of-racial-struggle-and-global-campaign-after-americas-conquest-of-native-americans.html

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the Nazis weren't really subtle. If you instead maintain a civil front inward for public support, you can wreak havoc more effectively.

That's why fascism is a different kind of danger. It wouldn't leech off of other places for centuries, it would explosively and directly attack internal and external enemies.

Neither of these things can be risked.