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Originally Posted by jwb
I didn't say geopolitics and ideology are divorced. I said the the sentiment that we're all just people is irrelevant to the geopolitical pressures which manifest themselves in actual conflict.
The Germans living under Nazi Germany had a lot in common with us too. Once again what difference does that actually make?
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I would say that yes, military combat indeed collapses whatever ideas of shared humanity that we may have.
I wouldn't confound this with something as vague and incoherent as "geopolitical pressures" though. It can mean anything from "in order to prosper, Germans must carve vast territories to the east into their Lebensraum by ethnically cleansing and enslaving local populations, who they regard as biologically inferior" to "we need to renegotiate the terms of our access to this source of water."
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