How about what, Alan? Philip S is right. The media will ignore it. My question was rhetorical. And I wouldn't have thought that Philip was “clearly to the left” of me on this subject.

Cont. But back to Nazi Germany. Hitler was both mad and brilliant. Mad because he labelled the Jewish ethnic minority he enemy of the state, simply to confiscate their wealth!

When instead he should have appointed them a CEO's and board members of the banking fraternity and in all areas of business and commerce, with that achieved, planned and executed a winter campaign against the Russians as a war of liberation for Ukraine, which would have seen the Poles/Czechoslovakians, joining in as virtual allies, ensuring the Blitzkrieg was aimed first and foremost at the Rusian bear/communism!

Given how easily the Russians were decimated in the initial onslaught, only saved by a scorched earth policy, the Russian winter. Quickly brought to their knees? Without the west lifting a finger!?

A pause and rebuild would have allowed him to further develop the beetlebug/V2.

He could have finished a couple more Bismarchs and a much larger submarine fleet, plus gotten his jets operational in significant and frightening numbers before launching a campaign against the middle east. By bypassing France and heading there via neutral Belgium.

The west would have thundered and rumbled but would not have done very much against an enemy that could have defeated Russia in just a few weeks if It had someone like Rommel in charge/properly equipped. Without British involvement, we would have not gotten involved nor one suspects America?

Japan could have been instructed to limit its hostilities to mainland China, after which she also could have spent several years consolidating her territorial gains.

Today wiser heads prevail, those who would rule the world are taking tiny unresisted bites, to the point where like China, to big to put back in their box? With paying a monumental empire destroying price!

That along with climate change drought/encroaching desertification has led to, north of fifty million, refugees now seeking refuge wherever they can find it. As so ably described by the Egyptian President!
Alan B.

The best way to solve poverty in South America, is for the white population of North America to swap continents with the people in South America. South America is actually a much richer continent than North America, and having it populated entirely by Europeans and Asians would turn it into the worlds richest country.

Then North America would turn into a poverty stricken hellhole, and all of the people in North America would be trying to get into South America. Everybody wants to live with the white guys,

It's the people. stupid.

//South America is actually a much richer continent than North America, and having it populated entirely by Europeans and Asians would turn it into the worlds richest country.//

Do the Spanish not count as Europeans anymore? This is a new development; I didn't even know they wanted to get out of the EU. Apparently they're a lot more efficient than the Poms.

History lesson for Tony Lavis.

The Spanish and the Portuguese began the process of European settlement of South America. The Incas and the Aztecs were interesting civilizations, having no metal tools or animals capable of work other than Llamas and Alpacas. But they still had operating gold and silver mines, efficient sewerage systems, and skilled stone masons. Mexico City was the largest city in the world at the time of the Conquistadors. All the Spanish and Portuguese had to do was take over operations from the bloodthirsty native upper classes and they were in business. However, serious revolutions in the 19th century which were essentially native uprisings against their Spanish and Portuguese colonial masters saw the re establishment of native rule in most SA countries. Like Africa, SA has gone downhill since then.

North America was settled by the North European people, and all they got was a lot of trees, and savage Indians who were difficult to suppress. By any application of reasoned logic, South America was more advanced, easier to conquer, and a richer continent. The amount of Silver and gold taken from South America at that time was so enormous that Spanish coinage almost became the world currency.

If you think that all races and cultures are equal, perhaps you could explain why North America (USA and Canada) became so successful despite their original handicap, while South America became a sheethole despite it's obvious advantages?

Could it be that the culture of the Protestant North European people was at that time much superior to that of the Catholic Southern Europeans? And that the Southern Europeans today have learned a lot from the Northern protestant Europeans? They no longer do what the Pope and their religion dictate, and they have realized that Science and technology are the keys to prosperity. Which is something the Muslims should be thinking.

Anyhoo, one aspect of Catholic teachings have been kept in South American countries. And that is to breed like flies. SA is now hideously overpopulated and that is nobody's fault but the South Americans and the Catholic church.