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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He (Macron) lamented that the spirit of revenge and humiliation after World War I sparked renewed nationalism that led to World War II.

Conveniently forgetting that one of the main causes of the Great War was the French spirit of revenge for their defect by Prussia in 1871.

At the time, it was called "revanche", and it was every Frenchman's patriotic duty.

29 posted on 11/11/2018 10:34:31 AM PST by John Locke
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Britain should have stayed out of it. If they had stayed out of it, we would have stayed out of it.


30 posted on 11/11/2018 10:37:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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