Summary
A new book, A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reveals Donald Trump’s ignorance on key historical and geopolitical issues.
During a 2017 visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, Trump reportedly asked, “What’s this all about?” showing a lack of understanding of Pearl Harbor.
The book also details Trump’s confusion over India’s border with China, his eagerness to meet Vladimir Putin before taking office, and his frustration with anti-bribery laws.
The authors claim their findings are based on extensive interviews and documents.
Fucking what.
Let me see if I can break it down more clearly:
They’re posting Nazi talking points.
The U.S. especially has built up this myth that they came to liberate Germany to save the Jewish people from concentration camps. Considering the Americans were anti-semitic as hell at the time, to the point they were denying Jews entry to the U.S., it’s a pretty fucking wild bit of historical revision.
You can fuck off with the “no one cared about the holocaust” bullshit.
My Oma’s family sheltered a jewish family during WW2 during Nazi occupation.
They didn’t know precisely what was happening, just that jewish people were being targeted and vanishing anywhere the Nazis controlled. A jewish family that was friends with her dad mostly fled to the US, but one man(a lawyer if memory serves) and the elderly mother stayed behind as she was deemed too sick to survive the trip. Her parents put them up.
Shortly after they were betrayed (by a starving neighbor desperate for rations who questioned why a healthy family of three had daily house calls from a doctor.)
A local industry (owned by a friend of the lawyer) stepped out and tried to get everyone including the jewish people, released from Nazi custody in return for the company relenting to Nazi pressure and helping them.
The Nazis released all of the non-jewish people, including my great-grandfather. The business changed their output slightly so that it wouldn’t be noticed that the pipes were sigificantly weaker than they should be.
Okay so that is a wild run on sentence that was very confusing to read but I think I figured out what they were going for?
I assume this person is saying that atrocities committed by Japan, such as Unit 731, are not as widely known as the Holocaust. Which was a specific deliberate choice by General MacArthur during the reconstruction of Japan following the dissolution of the monarchy.
If anyone is interested (and has 2 hours to kill lol) this video was quite illuminating on the subject.