What I am about to write here, I believe is deeply rooted in my academic thoughts. I will repeat what I have reflected on several times in my columns over the years. I believe there is no other group of lawmakers in any other country in the entire world whose mentality mirrors the Nazi mind more than many in the United States Congress from the Republican Party.
I believe there are no corresponding groups of legislators anywhere on Planet Earth whose words, fulminations, thought patterns, and mentalities are closer to the Nazi regime under Hitler than a large number of Republicans in the US Congress.

What Senator Tom Cotton (Arkansas) said in October 2023 is a stark reminder of how the Nazi regime saw the world and other people 84 years ago.
Speaking in an interview on Fox News, Cotton said that Israel is justified in killing Palestinian women and children because Hamas killed Jewish women and children. This is the identical expression of Nazi killers when partisan fighters from Nazi-conquered European countries attacked German soldiers.
The Nazi regimes would line up women and children and kill them in retaliation for the attacks of the partisan resistance guerrillas. Cotton went on to display a perfect Nazi mind when he told the interviewer that Israel should further bomb the places they have already reduced to rubbles so as to make the rubbles bounce. See that interview and hear it for yourself.
These Nazi-like words with unadulterated racial undertones came from the mouth of a United States Senator. If any legislator from the parliament of a developing country in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine had said that, such a politician would never get a visitor’s visa from the US or Europe.

Let us repeat it so it can be driven neatly into your consciousness so it can stay forever in your mind. Mr. Cotton said that Israel is justified in killing Palestinian women and children because Hamas killed Jewish women and children. Here is an American senator barefacedly ignoring the subscription to international laws by a government that has a seat in the United Nations. This same senator condemned Russia’s violation of international laws when it invaded Ukraine.

Cotton is not the only American lawmaker with a Nazi mind. The Republican Party is full of them. To think that the US elected as president a man whose mentality is very close to Cotton’s is something you only see in science fiction movies. His name is Donald Trump. In the 21st century, what moral standards can the United States teach the developing world? The US is always lecturing governments in the Global South about democratic standards.
It took an unspeakable tragedy in Israel and Gaza to finally open the eyes of the world to the falling moral values of the United States. The war crimes by Israel in Gaza are glossed over by the US Congress, US Government, US governors, US media.

This is the country the people of the ex-colonies were told was the head of the free world and that Russia, Cuba, Iran, China, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, North Korea and other countries the US did not like constituted a circle of evil. If what Cotton said isn’t pure evil, then what is evil?
Cotton’s remark at the time of writing has not been disowned by the US government, US Congress, state legislatures or the media. When Israel’s devastation in Gaza is over, Cotton will walk this world and be welcomed in the capitals of the world, and when he touches down, the particular country will provide him with official state courtesies.
Cotton should be declared persona non-grata by the international community. He should be seen as a figure of hate. I call on Guyanese to so describe Cotton. The so-called free-world would see nothing wrong with the remarks he made, and he would be welcomed in those countries. This is the double standard the “free world” operates with. If a Third World leader had said something in favour of Hamas, the “free world” would have banned him.

Sadly, the Ukranian people have become collateral damage in the destruction Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. Which country is going to rush and arrest Putin for war crimes after Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza and killed over 500 souls? Which country is going to see Putin as a war criminal and not Netanyahu?
But here is where the US will lose influence in the world. If Netanyahu is cited for war crimes, the US and EU countries will not accept the arrest warrant but will still ask other countries to detain Putin. At the moment Putin is the world’s happiest human.