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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
I thought the nerd that influenced American foreign policy was Mahan because of The Influence of Sea Power upon History

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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
the desire for 'lebensraum' was more complicated than that. it wasn't for the acquisition for scarce resources. it's 2 goals were:
  • Avoiding industrialized agriculture: both the UK and the USA had rapidly mechanized agriculture , but this had a knock on effect of rural unemployment, the movement of workers into industrial cities, trade unionism, and of course, communist movements. the most revolutionary workers in the russian revolution were all urban workers, not rural workers or farmers. The nazi's idea, was that if they instead restructured the economy to being primarily based on a rural lifestyle, of small scale property holders, it would prevent future threats. All the spiritual mumbo jumbo of blood and spiritual purity of rural lifestyle or whatever, is 100% just a cover for this, their deathly fear of communism.
  • The creation of a large small-holder labor pool, which could poo poo out plenty of sons of landholders, that you can draft into the army

rudatron has issued a correction as of 16:18 on Jul 27, 2018

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