Back in 2019 I wrote about a documentary featuring the 6888th (SixTripleEight) Central Postal Directory (CPD) all-black women battalion. 
Now Netflix has done another documentary of the same story, on the premise that still today nobody in America seems to have heard of the amazing 6888th.
Elon Musk’s opposition to USAID seems unhinged, like a drunken fool trying to launch rockets at perceived monsters under his own bed. The casual observer might wonder why, what’s so special about USAID to the man throwing Hitler salutes at his political rallies?
The emotional outbursts are in fact not just ideological (white supremacist false notions of “efficiency” meant to remove all non-white power in America), they are deeply personal and tied to memories of watching international pressure dismantle his family’s system of South African racist power and privilege.
To put it simply, the military formation of Green Berets by President JFK had a civilian counterpart called USAID. Quiet professional experts were deployed as “boots on the ground” during Cold War decolonization, to push and spread democracy around the world. USAID very visibly helped bring apartheid to an end around 1988, which just happens to be the year Elon Musk and his family abruptly fled South Africa – illegally immigrated to America to launder his family’s apartheid fortunes through tech startups like PayPal and so… he says now he will kill USAID (after mocking suicide of a Green Beret)
As a historian, let me break down a crucial yet completely overlooked context for what belatedly is being recognized as the most dangerous national security threat to America causing its biggest breach in history.
When we analyze potential targets in America of white supremacist groups, particularly those with South African connections, we need to understand why and how USAID holds very special significance in their ideology even today.
Consider this: A white South African born in 1971 would have watched USAID systematically dismantle perceived white racial dominance throughout their teenage years. It wasn’t just about the money, given USAID successfully built Black power structures that directly challenged Musk’s family “whites-only” position of authority:
Imagine Elon as a teenager being raised in the bubble of immoral apartheid privileges his grandfather had specially curated by fleeing Canada after Hitler lost WWII, watching USAID methodically fund democratic and freedom organizations his family labeled as “terrorists” for helping Blacks.
[Elon’s mother and family] came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government. They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff.
Musk’s family faced a harsh reality of international sanctions. Hitler-worshipping Nazi-adjacent violent direct threats to society no longer got a free ride. Even the horribly racist President Ronald Reagan no longer could help them (his pro-apartheid disinformation-riddled veto overridden), as USAID channelled millions into democratic and equitable community development of South Africa.
Note: H.R. 4868, which passed over the President’s veto on [1986] October 2, was assigned Public Law No. 99 – 440.
1984-1985: USAID launches its first major programs in South Africa, initially providing about $10 million annually, focused on scholarships for Black students and support for civil rights organizations.
1986 as crucial year (Elon aged 15):
1987-1989: USAID becomes increasingly visible as it:
Funds Black community newspapers?
ZOMG criminals!
God forbid what Elon Musk thought when he discovered Black Twitter! His family couldn’t stand to live in a country with Black newspapers. Do you wonder anymore why he would buy a giant media platform in America to rebrand it with obvious Nazi swastikas, fill it with Nazi hate speech, then use it to pump out Nazi merch and Hitler salutes?
From a threat modeling perspective, the 1980s USAID success in ending the white supremacist government in Africa creates a uniquely personal motivation for those enemies of America. We’re not just talking about abstract ideological opposition. We’re dealing with individuals like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk who view USAID as the American organization that “betrayed” their “superior” race during their formative years.
This historical context makes USAID a very high-value symbolic target, particularly for individuals now rapidly amassing abrupt positions of national authority that have all the hallmarks of an African coup. Their grudge isn’t just some political or economic “efficiency” story of 2025 since it is driven by teenage memories of being denied a future of white nationalist state plunder, overtly connected to USAID’s strategic intervention.
Risk mitigation strategy needs to account for this historical trauma-driven targeting by Elon Musk and his mercenary force presently compromising and dismantling federal systems.
Modern national security experts must consider that American adversaries seizing control of federal government don’t just see USAID as generic targeting, but as a decades-old personal enemy they want to destroy using highly symbolic revenge theatrics.
Those who study history see the signs of Nazism most clearly in Elon Musk’s words, behavior and actions. Every time someone says “but why self harm” or “makes no sense” about Musk’s plans for mass death and institutional suicide, I suspect they aren’t familiar enough with 1930s Nazi Germany:
“We now seek a science that forms the whole human character in accordance with the great racial and political task before us.” [Ernst Krieck, head of Frankfurt University] added: “We know we are on a new road in science, provided for us by our character, fate and history. We know that sooner or later all other nations will have to follow us on this road.” “Never before,” editorialized the New York Times days later, “did a great institution of learning joyously participate in its own degradation.”
As a historian, let me spell it out as clearly as possible. Nazi Germany’s 1933 “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” had made such suicidal plans possible because three years earlier it set up a “DOGE”:
Hitler’s Reich Radio Company and Postal Ministry gained control over every area of government through seizing telegraph, telephone and broadcast systems. Hitler’s OG of “DOGE” thus went around forcing out skilled technicians and implementing ‘modernized’ standards – creating a centralized system of surveillance and control, weaponized against any resistance.
Perhaps enough Americans still don’t understand what it means that Elon Musk was raised in South Africa by a Canadian family that fled as a designated national security threat, to continue Hitler’s mission after he killed himself. Here’s how Elon’s father described it:
[Elon’s mother and family] came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government. They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff.
An apartheid boy raised on Nazism who abruptly lands a fake top job in American government is of course aiming to inflict rapid institutional brain damage, known in Nazi circles as the old saying “boots to the head“.
Musk said that “USAID is a criminal organization.”
“Time for it to die,” he posted on X.
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Other top Trump officials, such as Stephen Miller… [has framed the “crime” as having more than one party,] accusing its workforce of being overwhelmingly Democrats.
And so the White House seems officially to be repeating 1933 Nazi German procedures. They are overtly stating that Americans in organizations of democracy who do not immediately adhere to a 1930s vision of single party system – loyalty to Der Führer Musk – should literally be killed.
The system of control is in process of being deployed right now. The U.S. government doesn’t seem able to stop the criminalization of thought, the breach of confidential systems. An active hunt for any resistance to Musk implementing absolute tyrannical control, the critical next descent into Nazism, already has been said out loud.
According to sources, personnel from the Musk-created office first physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped. The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said. […] Katie Miller, whom Trump named to DOGE in December, on Sunday appeared to confirm that DOGE personnel had accessed classified information.
In a functioning democracy, such an overt and obnoxious replay of a Nazi “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” would not be possible. Rogue American Executive branch agents trying to commit crimes (e.g. remember Watergate?) would logically be classified immediately as active threats to American national security and not only stopped, but arrested.
Americans are watching Elon Musk run the Hitler playbook with American government IT systems, justified with the same Hitler claims of “efficiency” while eliminating any and all institutional security protections against the next Hitler.
The Anglican Church main website page has posted a strong condemnation of a man (priest-in-charge at St Paul’s Anglican Catholic church in Grand Rapids, Michigan) who ended an anti-abortion rally speech with the Nazi salute.
First, you have to understand this guy freely admitted that he was trying to enrage people by offending them with a Nazi salute. He posted the explanation to his Facebook account:
The joke at the end was a mockery of the hysterical ‘liberals’ who called Elon Musk a Nazi…
He calls the Nazi salute a joke, and he says he had hoped to enrage ‘liberals’ with one, and he says he feels he must defend Elon Musk… none of which seemed to pass muster with the Church.
Father Calvin Robinson in fact has a very well-known history of spewing hate speech that he calls jokes, as if his beliefs don’t include accountability. He claims on his social media to be from an extremist right-wing British group, while dropping bombs such as these.
Even more to the point, Robinson only recently decided to become a priest and was denied a place by other denominations, presumably for being hateful. When the UK police (CPS) posted this online warning about hate speech being illegal:
Think before you post!
📲✋ Content that incites violence or hatred isn’t just harmful – it can be illegal.The CPS takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met. Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences.
Robinson ran away from police to the U.S. in September 2024, after giving this very public reaction to that warning:
Apparently the hate speech he spread online not only was getting him in trouble in the UK, is was getting him a plum invitation from a congregation in Michigan to lead them.
Second, here is the Anglican Church’s response and reaction to this man’s obvious and very long-standing hate campaigns.
At approximately 3:00 pm today (1/29) members of the College of Bishops of the ACC were made aware of a post made on X showing the end of a speech made by Calvin Robinson at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, DC. In it, he closed his comments with a gesture that many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute.
While we cannot say what was in Mr. Robinson’s heart when he did this, his action appears to have been an attempt to curry favor with certain elements of the American political right by provoking its opposition. Mr. Robinson had been warned that online trolling and other such actions (whether in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to desist. Clearly, he has not, and as such, his license in this Church has been revoked. He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC.
Furthermore, we understand that this is not just an administrative matter. The Holocaust was an episode of unspeakable horror, enacted by a regime of evil men. We condemn Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism in all its forms. And we believe that those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust and diminish the sacrifice of those who fought against its perpetrators. Such actions are harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.
Finally, we pray that God will give us grace to lay aside our unhappy divisions, and we commend our nation and ourselves to his Almighty protection.
That’s very well said.