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I haven't kept up on fetishes, though there are some strange ones out there.? The character in Pink Flamingos who dressed up as a baby and was obsessed with eggs comes to mind, but that awful movie in the 70s.? Perhaps the people from Mensa who hired the director to give a speech at the keynote event have some lingering issue in that department.

3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?

That Hitler would be placated and behave if we only hand over the Sudetenland.? The same mistake was made in the 21st century with handing over Crimea to Putin.? Another bad policy assumption was handing over Ukraine's nuclear weapons to Russia when the USSR broke up.? Putin may use those same weapons to conquer Ukraine.

4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?

It's hard to pick the "most incompetent," but WWI had plenty of examples of incompetent military officers.? There were so many battles in which massed infantry charged machine guns across an open field.? The Japanese hara kiri attacks were also insane, but none of those took casualties in the magnitude of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where the British took something like 62,000 casualties, or at Loos, where the British took almost 60,000 casualties, many by British gas that drifted the wrong way.

Russian general Samsonev's?incompetent generalship was described in detail in a book by Solznitsen, but there may be a few ?cases just as bad where no books were written.

5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?

Probably the nuclear ?arms race after WW2.? The USA had a huge advantage over the Soviets after the war, and yet we ended up with something like 34,000 nuclear warheads, and several close calls where a nuclear war could have destroyed modern civilization.? Nuclear bombers were in the air above the arctic for years in case they needed to bomb the USSR on short notice, and missiles and submarines were likewise always on alert.? In the 70s, solid fuel ICBMs and MIRVs (multiple warheads on each missile) were perfected so that hundreds of cities could be wiped out in a very short time.? The MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) police was aptly named, and I'm surprised that our fears growing up didn't come true.