Theatre of Trees
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In the 1930s Farage may well have been politically in the same boat as Mosley - note his strong support for Russia today and his desire to appease Putin. There are a number of similarities between himself and those from occupied countries who collaborated with Hitler: venality, vanity, obsession with money, and an inability to self discipline himself to fit into hierarchical party political structures. His support of Russia today is largely because Putin has been able to impose a sham democratic system that enables him to stay in power without worrying about possible political opponents (either jail them, poison them or throw them out of windows).
Collaboration in WW2 was motivated by two points; finance and politics. Financial reasons straddled the entire spectrum between those needing to put food on the table to those who took advantage of enriching themselves through the confiscated proceeds of ideological undesirables. Political reasons were far narrower: ideological which encompassed all fascist parties in Europe bar one (a small Belgian fascist party who were too vehemently anti-German), who liked to prance around town with their uniforms and beat up opponents; and fellow travellers, vehemently anti-Communist but finding some aspects of Nazi ideology distasteful - these people would be on the take but turn their heads when the more ruthless elements of Nazism were on display. Quisling and Laval were exponents of the latter, and that is where I believe Farage would have stood if he was living then and Britain had been occupied.
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