And it works the other way round. People see Putin wage endless wars and assume he must be a nationalist because they’ve learned to equate nationalism with war.
In reality, war is a normal state of humanity. War always existed and always will. That sucks beyond belief, and I hate it deeply. But people waged war before the nation-state and they wage it after.
Endless wars sounds like some kind of blood sport.
In SA, the most popular sport is club football, which is historically dominated by the black urban working class.
Now, there is a new dominant club located in the capital, referred to as “The Brazilians.”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/54085174
Their success is due to their DEI owner, who happens to be the president’s brother in law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Motsepe
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