Hitler invaded Poland to plunder the country to stave off another impending economic collapse of Germany, thanks to his runaway excessive government spending. In that sense, he was distracting the Germans from being revealed on how bad of an administrator he was. Trump invaded Venezuela and wants to annex Greenland to distract people from the fact that he is a pedophile. And that's a helluva weirder reason to go to war for distraction...
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The US would be better off if it becomes a socialist/communist country during the Great Depression - if any of you wanted an idea on what that would be like, read the althistory story "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline".