On this day in 1889

[alien space marine]

This will sound bad but in simple terms we did most of the work and Russia swooped in at the last day, literally. They claimed victory and thus began the cold war. It was a victory for humanity but a bitter sweet one politically. America has never won a war on its own unless you count the civil war, but even then... we depend on our allies.

Germany didn't need allies, Japan was a front, a red herring to draw attention. By the time the Nippon people had realized it, they had already turned their back to their old ways and leader.

Hitler was a single man who said lets take over the world and all he had to do was make a friend of America or keep us out of his territories until he could do exactly what we did to Japan, scare us in to submission, then be drawn and organized in to aryan groups. His belief was that if you can mold one generation, one city, one school of children, you will have an army in less than two decades and they'll agree to it because you promise them everything and deliver. What's a little genocide and crimes against humanity when we're talking about creating an empire of perfection and wealth, no quarrels of religion, no war, no conflict, no crime, one language, one race under God.

North Korea with the money and strength of Europe, it would have been what Rome only hoped to be, but in a circus-like prison of damnation and guilt, a bastardized vision of peace and he was so close to doing it that all governments, all political leaders know and fear the possibility of a single man creating the same proverbial drop in the ocean. Even with today's technology, in today's world, we all wonder if there will be another Nazi Germany rising. I'm not talking about some country hick who shaves his head and thinks he's aryan, i'm talking about leader in the asian territories or middle eastern who decides they want to give it a shot - all you'd need is the threat of nuclear warfare. With that alone, you can create your own empire, sacrificing your ties to the world.

I think Osama Bin ladin has just such a vision,Many foreign friends of Hitler like Yasser Arafat mentor Mohammad Amin al-Husayni wanted to create a new ottoman empire with the help of the third Reich.

I say either islam declines and fades thanks to the information age just like christianity is or within a thousand years the world will be ruled by a global caliphate and humanity will be bound to the unchangeable laws created by dessert wandering 7th century bedouins.