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Context: This is an archived article from 1939 by "Foreign Affairs".
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1939-04-01/will-hitler-save-democracy
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No one seems to have actually read the article, just the headline. This is the ultimate click bait title - kudos to the headline writer in 1939.
The tl/dr: It's saying Hitler's authoritarian actions were galvanising other countries to step up and protect democracy after the failures after WW1.
In the final paragraph:
And the final line of the article:
The article is surprisingly prescient.
Lmao OP caught in 4k
In my defense, the contents were blocked by a paywall
Like Putin uniting NATO countries
Nah, NATO is a really bad example, it's not union it's usa controlling others members
When the headline of an article is a question, the answer is always "no".
Interesting that unwritten rule applied back then as well.
I'd love to read it for myself but it's paywalled. Do you think you could run it through archive.is?