1. Lee surrendered to Grant 152 years ago. As @brianbeutler notes, Confederacy Defeat Day should be a holiday: https://newrepublic.com/article/121406/civil-war-150th-anniversary-confederacy-defeat-should-be-holiday …
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And glorification of war.
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4. In Canada, in particular, there's an unwholesome tendency to mythologize WWI & Vimy as national coming of age stories.
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In New Zealand and Australia, too.
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They thought WWI would be a bit of sport, because that's how things like that had usually gone. Not in the age of the machine!
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WWI probably had moral justification if you were French and had just been invaded. Different sides in war have different justifications.
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oh look, someone needs to read up on Germany's war aims. Start with Fritz Fischer
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The war aims of German's opponents were no nobler. They were all imperialist powers.
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The moral justification of WWI was the same as WWII, to not let Germany dominate the continent
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