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Patriotism is a good thing? Since when?

And it's the same all over the world. St. Patrick's Day is an international drinking holiday.

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Patriotism is a good thing? Since when?

And it's the same all over the world. St. Patrick's Day is an international drinking holiday.

I learned about a military concept called "Center of Gravity." Essentially, it's the idea that every nation has something which, if you topple over, can topple over the entire nation.

For the French it's Paris. All you gotta do is roll over Paris and the French will stop fighting. For the Japanese in WW Deuce, it was their Emperor. The Japs would fight until their Emperor was killed or told them to stop. So we dropped the nukes on them to completely take the will to fight out of their Emperor and they full stop surrendered. The Germans had Hitler. They were willing to drive their country into the ground so long as Hitler was still taking the lead.

Well, if your nation's center of gravity is the nation itself, you'll never get rocked. Burn down DC, who gives a shit? Route the Army? We'll go Militia up in this bitch. Ours is actually our public opinion. You shift public opinion against war, and we'll stop fighting. But if someone attacks us, I doubt public opinion would ever shift.

So yeah, not a good idea for you to be deeply patriotic, but it's nice that your neighbors are.