"Even in the Weimar Republic, the vote for the National Socialists was closely correlated with the unemployment rate. The Nazis were in trouble (with their share of the vote falling and the party beset by internal disputes) as late as 1927, before the German economy started to contract. Then, of course, the Depression hit."
No Dictatorship without a Depression first. Therefore, to ensure a Dictatorship on their terms, the fascists need to crash the stock markets.
And if it comes to that, NORAD will have to be dead for Canada. NATO will be problematic, if still viable as an extension of the EU rather than of US policy. And the EU will be Canada's best chance of holding onto whatever we still can of our own sovereignty.
Even without a USA collapse, I'm increasingly concerned about your security in the wake of ongoing drought in the US, particularly in California, where all the agriculture is. You've got all the freshwater. You also have a very long and unsecured border with a well-armed neighbor who needs that water. All that's needed is for the US to manufacture a pretext, and honestly, we do that all the time for things of less importance, don't we?
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"Even in the Weimar Republic, the vote for the National Socialists was closely correlated with the unemployment rate. The Nazis were in trouble (with their share of the vote falling and the party beset by internal disputes) as late as 1927, before the German economy started to contract. Then, of course, the Depression hit."
No Dictatorship without a Depression first. Therefore, to ensure a Dictatorship on their terms, the fascists need to crash the stock markets.
And if it comes to that, NORAD will have to be dead for Canada. NATO will be problematic, if still viable as an extension of the EU rather than of US policy. And the EU will be Canada's best chance of holding onto whatever we still can of our own sovereignty.
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