Trump's actions in Venezuela straight out of the Nazi playbook for home repression 

The connection between the Trump administration's domestic repression and foreign aggression is beginning to come into focus, just as Hitler's did in 1938, writes Timothy Snyder

An oil tanker being seized by US forces off the coast of Venezuela last week. Photo: US Attorney General's Office/X via AP

In certain ways, this autumn in the United States has recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany, when mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s most ambitious coercive policies before the start of the Second World War. 

In the US, too, the connection between domestic repression and foreign aggression is coming into focus.