Posted on 06/18/2018 5:23:43 PM PDT by BBell
If Franco doesn’t win the Civil War, Hitler invades Spain right after defeating France, and probably takes Gibraltar.
Viva Franco! Viva Pinochet!
That should get a good rise of blood pressure out of you.
Communists and socialists are like vampiric roaches.
Spoken like someone who never lived under Communism. I have.
The “Marquis of Queensbury” rules do not apply. The only way to defeat the Communists (when they were ascendant between the wars and shortly after WW2), was with an iron fist. It was that or slavery.
BTW, the “Republican Government” of Spain (*SPIT*) sent the entire gold reserves of Spain to Stalin as the price of his support during the war.
When its a choice between Communism and authoritarianism, any SANE PERSON who cares about survival of civilization would choose the latter over the former.
Spain survived Franco’s conservative rule quite nicely. The countries that were conquered by Communism didn’t fare nearly as well....they are still largely economic basket cases with a hollow empty place where once they had a national soul.
Nope, I’m laughing at morons who like nazis because they think they are anti-communist. It’’s the ethos of the weakling who doesn’t believe in the principles America is founded on. Like all weaklings, they wish for a strongman.
It’s similar to those who watch mafia movies because they are so pushed around in their own life, it makes them feel good to see Tony Soprano ignore the rules and give someone a beatdown. And that is why we see these “conservatives” waxing on admiringly about nazi lore and fellow travelers.
The World is not America. Different countries have completely different situations and what works here doesn’t necessarily work there.
And if you think Franco and Pinochet were “Nazis” then you swallowed the Leftist narrative hook, line and sinker.
The last thing Spain needs now is a socialist/communist/Marxist government. Haven’t they had enough of them and the harm they can cause?
Well, anti-Semitism is on the rise in Catalonia, so a part of Spain is partying like it’s “1492”.
Hitler had no capability with which to take Gibraltar. Especially not as long as the Royal Navy existed, a RN which the Germans had little ability to interfere with.
The RN would have simply blasted any attacking Germans right off the rock.
It would be similar to trying to take Iwo Jima as a massive Jap fleet surrounded the island.
The Germans didn’t take Gibraltar, because they couldn’t. Tobruk was weaker than Gibraltar and Rommel and the Africa Corps couldnt take it despite a 7 month siege. But the blockheads were just gonna storm Gibraltar.
The Brits were too strong.
Even if true, without question, Hitler still invades Spain, and with it, would have gone one of the few safe havens Jews had in Europe.
Shameful for a conservative to admire Pinochet and Franco. Both were fascists. Both made excuses for Hitler.
Both are the epitome of weaklings who have nothing of value to offer an American.
The answers to the communist menace are easily found in the men of US history, not in some comic strutting totalitarian.
Hitler didn’t for good reasons. Franco was like-minded enough that he didn’t need to invade a fellow traveler.
Franco did just enough to make Hitler think he was a fellow traveller. They really didn’t care for each other at all.
So how were “men of US History” supposed to get rid of a menace like Allende?
The answers to the communist menace are easily found in the men of US history, not in some comic strutting totalitarian.
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The question is: Will it always be thus? Only time will tell, but my bet is that the U.S. is not immune to a Leftist totalitarian crisis. In fact, one could easily argue we’ve been slippery sloping our way towards it for almost a century.
Mark
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