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RosieG

If you are a NATIONALISTIC leader there would be no reason to admonish others country's leader about how they rule. Why would you care?

Put your country FIRST,LAST,ALWAYS. BUTT OUT. MYOB. Otherwise you are just faking it. If you butt in and try to control what is going on in the rest of the world you are not a Nationalist at all. You are a Buttinsky with delusions of grandeur.  Aren't you?

Posted - November 13, 2017
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    Nonsense. You are conflating nationalism with extreme isolationism. 

    Nationalism is simply the belief in political independence. Nationalism is entirely compatible with trying to culturally influence other nations. No nation can be entirely indifferent to what is going on around it. The survival of a nation as independent entity relies on destroying, or at least holding in check, all entities that threaten its independence.

    Nationalism is our independence from them, not their independence from us. I believe that in general we should respect the independence of other nations as political entities, though sometimes intervention is necessary.

    Saying we don't respect the right of a sovereign nation to govern itself because we criticize it, is like saying that if we criticize the KKK for calling people n*ggers, we don't believe in the right to free speech.

    This post was edited by Zeitgeist at November 15, 2017 2:11 PM MST
      November 13, 2017 3:25 PM MST
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