{"id":311973,"date":"2026-01-19T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=311973"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:31:28","slug":"beyond-oil-trump-models-himself-after-adolf-hitler-as-the-genius-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/beyond-oil-trump-models-himself-after-adolf-hitler-as-the-genius-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Oil! Trump Models Himself after Adolf Hitler as the “Genius Leader”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read <\/em>Mein Kampf to understand US fascism and Trump’s Hitlerite leadership. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10 Jan 2026 –\u00a0<\/em>Not long ago, a Ukrainian friend in Kyiv told me, \u201cDonald Trump is not a President, but a businessman\u201d<\/em>. He knew. His country\u2019s mineral resources – and the need to end the war with Russia on a more equitable term – were crucial elements in the high level ceasefire conversations between US and Russian Presidents – Trump and Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

The operative word here is \u201ctransactional\u201d. Many would agree. In Ukraine, it was the \u201ccritical raw minerals<\/a>\u201d, including titanium.<\/p>\n

In Venezuela, under the Bolivarian socialist government, Trump has reportedly and repeatedly played up the quest for cheap oil<\/a> from the country with the world\u2019s known, but untapped crude oil reserve.<\/p>\n

In Greenland, a Danish colony, for lack of a better word, Trump is reportedly bent on land grab, for whatever commercial, military or strategic reasons.<\/p>\n

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On Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman<\/a>, the renowned British journalist and founder of Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan was emphatic when he repeated the central argument, which he made in his Zeteo op-ed Trump’s Venezuela Attack: It\u2019s All About the Oil, Stupid! <\/a> , published the day of the Trump regime\u2019s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores from his home in Caracas.<\/p>\n

However transactional, money-obsessed and exceedingly acquisitive Trump may be, there is something else – equally disdainful and unprincipled, and, in my view, extremely worrying – other than the old fashion colonial European resource and land grab.<\/p>\n

Based on the emerging evidence, Trump is more than an old fashion imperialist.<\/p>\n

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There exists a chilling parallel between Adolf Hitler <\/a>and Donald J. Trump, in so far as the two men\u2019s worldview – of themselves, the countries and people – \u201craces?\u201d – they identify, and their respective missions.<\/p>\n

It matters not that Trump has no known ideological doctrine, like Hitler and his Mein Kampf.<\/p>\n

The truth is Trump doesn\u2019t need to come up with his own \u201cshowpiece\u201d. For he evidently draws substantive views and sentiments from Hitler\u2019s genocidally racist and <\/em>categorically anti-democratic view of politics, power and society.<\/p>\n

Although I had never operated in Trump\u2019s circle of wealth, access to power, and celebrity media during my 17-years (1988-2005), first as a university student, a campus organizer, and an educator I have followed the tales of Donald J. Trump, just as I have followed other household names in politics, media, culture, sports and academy. Over these 30-odd years, I have watched his TV interviews in different US media outlets.<\/p>\n

What gives chill down my spine as a student of genocide – one of my three PhD advisers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison actually interrogated surrendered or captured Nazi SS officers in the US section of the Allied Occupied Germany in 1945, in his capacity as a German-fluent US military intelligence surveyor – is that Trump reportedly reads and keeps (or had kept) Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf by his bedside.<\/p>\n

TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original – maungzarni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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10 Jan 2026 – There exists a chilling parallel between Adolf Hitler and Donald J. Trump, insofar as the two men\u2019s worldviews–of themselves, their countries, and people – \u201craces?\u201d–they identify with, and their respective missions. Read Mein Kampf to understand US fascism and Trump’s Hitlerite leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":311976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[867,1441,417,1619,530,3614,542,1747,1126,682,1050,950,541,559,3530,86,2571,546,2060,1190,329,2137,880,249,70,557],"class_list":["post-311973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anglo-america","tag-big-oil","tag-bullying","tag-canada","tag-cuba","tag-disaster-capitalism","tag-fascism","tag-greenland","tag-hegemony","tag-hitler","tag-imperialism","tag-invasion","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-military-capitalism","tag-occupation","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-oligarchy","tag-profits","tag-regime-change","tag-resources","tag-south-america","tag-state-terrorism","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312477,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311973\/revisions\/312477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}