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Couldn't help but wonder if the racist Ian Smith of f*ing Eric Trump's today

" Trump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who "

was any relation to the late Ian Smith of the late Rhodesia. Guess more likely not than likely, still the thought led to
a couple of decent articles with similarities in past unwise and exploitive settlement disputes to today as in Israel ..

How To Kill A Country
Turning a breadbasket into a basket case in ten easy steps—the Robert Mugabe way
By Samantha Power
[...]
Mugabe's belief that he can strengthen his flagging popularity by destroying a resented but economically vital minority group is one that dictators elsewhere have shared. Paranoid about their diminishing support, Stalin wiped out the wealthy kulak farming class, Idi Amin purged Uganda's Indian commercial class, and, of course, Hitler went after Jewish businesses even though Germany was already reeling from the Depression. Whatever spikes in popularity these moves generated, the economic damage was profound, and the dictators had to exert great effort to mask it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-kill-a-country/302845/

Shades of illegal settlements of today. And it strikes me that your Ian Smith of today will work his
evil to create trouble and torment only to lose in the end, as the late Ian Smith was defeated:

Ian Smith, 88, white supremacist and former leader of Rhodesia
By Alan Cowell
Nov. 21, 2007
Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88.
[...]
In the autumn of 1979, however, Britain presided over what was to be its final conference on Rhodesia. Only Smith, a member of Muzorewa's delegation, resisted the terms that led to British-supervised elections and lawful independence the next spring. Mugabe came to power. The white Rhodesians' rebellion had finally crumbled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/world/africa/21iht-obits.1.8417707.html

Am not seeing parallels. Only plenty of similarities.

See also:

[Excellent] Mandela and the Question of Violence
.. the bottom one of yours was so excellent here it is in full .. i'm looking forward to reading it again
One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Dec 11 2013, 3:11 PM ET
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