So about that Hindenburg...
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I mean. Once you start wondering who the bad guys were in world war 2, why not recognize the great Nazi airship tragedy as also victimizing humanity?
Go full tin foil giga brain with me:
The same forces of global capital that would have serious issues with a nationalist seizure of finance breaking control of fiat currency and the fractional reserve model of banking, would have real issues with an emergent system of cheap rigid air transport fueled and floated with hydrogen obtained via electrolysis. You can commodify and control petroleum so much better than water, after all.
Oil is the the gold standard of the modern day. Perhaps the oil oligopolies realized that back then.