By Howie Katz
In almost every nation there is a
power behind the official head of state. So it was with Nazi Germany
and so it is with the United States.
The Third Reich

Adolf Hitler
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The United States

![Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday, November 2, 2020, at Turner Field in Atlanta [File: AP/Brynn Anderson]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20307723037596.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
Barack Obama
The Court Jester
The advantage the US has over the former Third Reich is that Hitler and Himmler did not have a jester to to make the Germans laugh.