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Hitler was not bent on world domination.

GOP Capitalist answered that aspect of your question quite well.

You are --surely-- familiar with Hitler's order to his U-boats to avoid contact with U.S. ships. How does that square with plans for worldwide dominiation?

Merchant Marines might take issue with U-bots and how they avoided contact with US Ships. However, it was quite clear that Hitler intended to take over Europe, consolidate and then go for more.

Invading Russia was the pursuit of resources to make it possible to attack America. However, first he needed to take Russia and then he needed to industrialize that vast nation of rich resources.

Hitler did ally with Japan against the US, and there is absolutely no indication that he considered the Japanese racial equals.

Having said that, I believe there is merit in Buchannan's claim that the US might have been better served by letting Germany self-destruct. All socialist empires must self-destruct because they are fundamentally flawed as part of their inception...and those flaws have nothing whatsoever to do with human nature.

However, it was quite clear that Hitler intended to take over Europe, consolidate and then go for more.

There's no support for that in the record.

Walt

Merchant Marines might take issue with U-bots and how they avoided contact with US Ships.

Are you just being dense?

From 1939 right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor Hitler forbade his U-boats to attack U.S. ships. The problem was that FDR had the U.S. Navy attacking them after about September, 1941.

Hitler had no plans whatever to attack the United States. His ambitions were strictlky European. His outlook was very opportunist. If he could have gotten the USA on the cheap, that would have been great. But he wasn't planning on getting it, ever.

The Japs and Germans were allies in name only. They shared neither intelligence or assets. It was strictly an affair of convenience and propaganda. It was all "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Walt

Hitler did ally with Japan against the US, and there is absolutely no indication that he considered the Japanese racial equals.

German aid to the Japanese consisted of one Tiger tank.

Walt