• SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The last one is utterly jaw-dropping, not necessarily because I’m surprised Churchill said it, but how this sentiment has hardly suffered a dent in the contemporary “western” zeitgeist.

    Replace a few words, trade “Aryan” for “European”, “civilized” for “developed”, and “barbaric” for “authoritarian”… boom, you’ve got a chart-topping WaPo OpEd.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      it’s also pure 100% undiluted projection.

      nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations

      the west is the one that’s done all that and keeps doing it.