Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland

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43. "In the first stages of totalitarian regime... secret police & the party's elite formations still play a role similar to

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other forms of dictatorship... The first stage of ferreting out secret enemies and hunting down former opponents is usually combined with drafting the entire population into another front organization and re-educating old party members for voluntary espionage services... during this stage a neighbor gradually becomes a more dangerous enemy to one who "harbors dangerous thoughts" as the "enemy within" -- than are officially appointed police agents...
the chief difference between a totalitarian and imperialist expansion is that totalitarians recognize no formal difference between a home and a foreign country, with world expansion as their goal... "

------------------------- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 1966 - 2024 (first to sixth copyright renewal)