Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

Final Part: History is often shaped not by deterministic power relations, but rather by tragic mistakes that result from believing in mesmerizing but harmful stories.

From Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

Contd: Part 5: Couldn't the the Germans have skipped the failed Nazi experiment and put their faith in liberal democracy already in the early 1930's? The position of this book that they could have.

Contd: Part III: Twelve years of Nazi rule didn't foster the German's material interests. Nazism led to the destruction of Germany and the death of millions. Later, when Germany adopted liberal democracy, this did lead to a lasting improvement in their lives.

Contd 1: This wasn't the inevitable result of Germans pursuing their material interests and protecting their privileges; it was a tragic mistake. We can confidently say that it was a mistake, and that the Germans could have chosen better stories, because we know what happened next.

Hitler won the 1933 elections because during the economic crisis millions of Germans came to believe the Nazi story rather than one of the alternative stories on offer.
TBC