China is today's equivalent of Nazi Germany

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

It's enough to make yer I's !! The percieved shame of the Versailles Treaty and the subsequent Nazi rise to global domination(fulfilling Kaiser Wilhelm's failed "German place in the sun")in the '1930s are similar to China's "century of shame" to Western dominance; and its Communist rise in the 20th century, commencing with the Boxer Rebellion. [...]

OT here in relation to current China, but please. The Kaiser wanted "a place in the sun", meaning colonies, as all other western nations already had. He did not strive for "global domination", you might apply this word to your anglo-saxon friends from Little Britain, and maybe to your own country.
Not even Hitler wanted "world domination", he was not that dumb. He wanted to go for Russia, right from the beginning, and only that. Poland was in the way, but it also was for Russia. As you probably know the british treaty with Poland was only effective in case of being attacked by Germany alone. In case of Russia attacking (as it did) Britain did nothing.

Just when almost the whole world declared war against Germany I would not say that Hitler wanted to conquer this world? He should have stopped it all and maybe he even tried (there is stuff they do not tell at school), but apart from being too late the allied effort was directed to destroy Hitler. Negotiations, a ceasefire or even a capitulation was never an option and not wanted by the allies.

Militarily alone this was not an allied masterpiece, but in hindsight it was certainly justified by Hitler's brutal dictatorship and the sheer industrial size of killing unwanted people in concentration camps.
But "world domination"? Certainly not. [/OT]