Bruno's predictions had more or less come true… Especially in regards to Nikola Tesla. Fearing the idea of leaving the "land of opportunity" which was the United States behind, especially in this booming era of free enterprise in the region. The genius inventor had declined to initially accept Bruno's invitation to move to the German Reich and work for him.
Despite Bruno acquiring many of the era's greatest inventors, Tesla remained firm in his decision. But as Bruno also expected, nobody else was really willing to invest in his ideas that were just "not profitable" from the perspective of businessmen who could not grasp the bigger picture of Tesla's brilliance and what it meant for the world, and humanity as a whole.
Money began to dry up very quickly, and when the War broke out, that only further become a matter of complication, as US companies began to infringe on his patents, or at least those that were still giving him some monetary compensation.