Exciting discussion this week with one of our generals who is trying to convince me that patriotism is not dead, that his soldiers are always ready to give their lives for their country, like the Ukrainians facing the Russians today.
In the army, certainly, but in the people taken as a whole, is it also certain?
I confess that I have more than doubts.
It should first be noted that, for substantive reasons, our conception of nuclear deterrence no longer makes much sense, in any case not as much as it did in the days of the Cold War, Stalinism or triumphant Maoism, given that no democratic country won over to the ideal of human rights would do today what the Americans did so uselessly and despicably in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
In fact, what rule of law would agree to raze entire cities, even those of an enemy country, when they are populated by innocent civilians, women and children?
We rightly deplore war crimes…
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