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Actually it's very positive to free yourself from nationalism. It allows you to hold your own country and your allies to account. We wouldn't have slave trade reparations without it. It also allows us to see things from the point of view of our enemy, which helps us to defeat him. Perhaps you don't know the saying "those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". I guarantee that officers in our forces have it drummed into them. It's also grossly mendacious and self-defeating to accuse someone of war crimes without admitting that all sides commit them. When this is all over, Nato desperately needs to emerge with moral authority. If we do, it will actually prevent some wars and save lives.
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Can we drop the Tanky Left anti US BS and go back to discussing the actual Russian invasion of Ukraine?
All this bullshit about historical nonsense and past nationalistic grievances when the prime actors at that time are well dead and buried (mentioning Texus WTF that’s 160 years ago?!) is ridiculous and exactly the kind of dangerous propaganda that Putin felt gave him right to attack Ukraine. Get in the real modern world people.