[NEWS] Five politics links: Weimar violence, Nazi bios, Russia, US military, Ontario under Ford

[rfmcdonald]

• Open Democracy notes how the unrestrained and unpunished violence of the far right helped doom the Weimar Republic.


• VICE reports on a remarkable project, wherein an American in the 1930s solicited and received explanations from Germans as to why they became Nazis. (The letters' language echoes.)


• This Adnan Khan interview at MacLean's with Russian expert Bobo Lo puts forth the origins and prospects of the Russian challenge to the world order.


• Given the growing problems of the United States, the fact that American military power versus China or Russia cannot be guaranteed is something Canada needs to take into account. CBC reports.


• Stephen Maher at MacLean's makes the point that, with the casual corruption of the Doug Ford government, it is as if Ontario is living a Dukes of Hazzard episode.