The Canadian parliament’s “Nazi salute” incident reveals much more than simply the fact that Canada has the dumbest politicians in the world. It’s a reminder that it was pure geopolitics — not ideological or moral considerations — that led the “liberal” US and UK to oppose Nazi-Fascism. Ideologically, US/UK elites had much more in common with Nazi-Fascism than Soviet communism. Indeed, throughout the 1930s, large swathes of the US/UK political, corporate and intellectual elites were explicit in their support of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s corporatist, anti-communist regimes. They would have been the US/UK’s natural allies against the USSR. It was an accident of history that things went differently. But now and then the ideological continuities (in terms of Euro-Orientalist anti-Russian racism, for example) between today’s liberal establishment and Nazi-Fascist ideology re-emerge, as they did a few days ago in the Canadian parliament, where every single MP reflexively assumed that anyone who fought Russia, at any point in history, must necessarily be on the right side of history. As the meme goes: “Are we the baddies?”.
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