I have to quote this in full because it’s too good:
The world learned the wrong lesson from WWII.
After Hitler came close to exterminating an entire race of people— bringing the Ashkenazi Jewish population to such low numbers that even today the Ashkenazis remain below their pre-Holocaust numbers— the world walked away with the idea that “nationalism” is bad.
But nationalism is what helped the British keep fighting against the Germans, what made the Americans fight in WWII after Pearl Harbor. Nationalism is what helped the Allies win the war. Nationalism is what helped to liberate concentration camps and stop the genocide.
Sure nationalism also helped the Germans and the Japanese fight that war. There’s always two sides to every coin.
But nationalism isn’t “evil” in the least. It’s what countries choose to do with their nationalism that is the difference between good and evil. Nationalism in and of itself is but survival.
The wrong lesson about nationalism from WWII is what lead to the migrant crisis in England and France — it’s what lead to the state of France today.https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1810078803852689473?t=xIL-7cTqX6DyK7dDqDUq_w&s=19
We’ve been trained like Pavlovian dogs to experience an unpleasant jolt whenever we hear the word “nationalism.” And each one of those jolts is money out of our pockets and into someone else’s. It’s time for obedient puppies to break from their leashes.
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Today 8.07.24 Russia officially celebrates the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.
Today “Russia fired more than 40 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure in Kyiv … killing at least 29 civilians … badly damaging Kyiv’s main children’s hospital in the deadliest air strike in months”
“Some two hours later, debris from another missile attack hit a different hospital in Kyiv”
Romanenko posted that a private birthing center, where his wife gave birth to their ~1 year old son, was damaged too:
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Saw Bykov on YouTube and remembered that you promised to post a review of his novel about Zelensky. Have you finished it? Is it good?
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It’s very good but the reading goes much slowly than expected. He’s narrating the first days of the war and I can only read little bits because it’s still hard even to think about that time. But yes, very impressive so far.
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“the idea that “nationalism” is bad”
An odd takeway from WWII…. especially since Reich doesn’t mean ‘nation’ or ‘country’ but ’empire’… and one of the biggest empires on the planet was richly rewarded for its role in WWII…
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