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@ netche
Agreed regarding the speech.
I'm curious, I've spent some time in Europe and my sense is that the violence of the twentieth century affected Europe very differently than it did the US.
Europe seems, in general, justly chastened and suspicious of nationalism and militarism, probably because the European people saw the destruction first-hand.
Maybe this is just romanticising, I don't know, but it certainly feels to me that the US has only become more and more triumphalist while Europe more and more...what...cautious? Sober? Peaceful, even?
Hard to generalize about a continent, of course, but do you see any differences, based on your experience?