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 As a German I can be more specific about Germany as inspiration than about other nations. And I might have an - although not intended - national-tinted point of view.
-After the Second World War we are the way the world - or at least the West - wanted us to be. Don't blame your creation. ''Never again must war arise from German ground.'' '''And so we got pacifistic, pluralistic, moralistic. Sometimes to such a degree it annoys our partners - and even ourselves.''' Sometimes our own Remembrance Culture with its strong state-medial and political - therefore dead boring - rituals goes ourselves on the nerve. We try to get along with everyone. With USA, with Russia. With Israel, with Palestine (unofficially).
+After the Second World War we are the way the world - or at least the West - wanted us to be. Don't blame your creation. ''Never again [must war arise from German ground].'' '''And so we got pacifistic, pluralistic, moralistic. Sometimes to such a degree it annoys our partners - and even ourselves.''' Sometimes our own Remembrance Culture with its strong state-medial and political - therefore dead boring - rituals goes ourselves on the nerve. We try to get along with everyone. With USA, with Russia. With Israel, with Palestine (unofficially).
 As part of the '''indoctrination of humanistic values''' school classes are dragged to old Nazi concentration camps. A normal educated citizen is meant to always remember history and be fair on everyone. What is generally a good thing has a few '''bizarre side effects in society''': hyper moral and double standards. Besides the traditional right standard racism [https://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/israel-und-europas-rechtspopulisten-verbuendete-gegen-islam-und-islamismus/23938578.html there are also people from the right spectrum who wear the support for state Israel like an armor.] At the same time they have no problem in excessively criticizing other foreign persons, especially when they are immigrates. They seem to believe that when they are pro-Israel they cannot be racists. On the other hand there are people from the left spectrum who have a blind eye for problems immigrates cause. For examples clan criminality, mafia, Arabic/pro-Palestine antisemitism were problems ignored for too many years since their fight back did not fit into the German [[wp:Willkommenskultur|welcoming culture]]. (In any case it should be common sense that German Jews are the wrong target for Israel criticism, they are not responsible for Israeli politics.) The [[wp:2021_Israel–Palestine_crisis|Israel-Palestine crisis]] and the [[wp:2021–2022_Belarus–European_Union_border_crisis|Belarus-EU border crisis]] in 2021 shook Germany's self-image. As a result the underdeveloped migration and inefficient integration politics are finally realized through essentially all political parties. Yet, much work is to do to grind away ideological hardening and formulating improved arrangements.
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 At the same time Germany earns good money exporting weapons. [https://www.dw.com/en/german-arms-sales-drop-to-second-highest-levels-on-record/a-37243336 The numbers are even increasing on average]. Despite many restrictions often enough those weapons find a way into conflict zones.
-If policy of détente is the continuation of moderate pacifism on state level, appeasement policy may be sees as continuation of a more radical (suicidal) pacifism. In any case Germany had lost its instinct for '''geopolitics''' after having adopted a pacifistic base attitude. After WWII strong nationalism and '''imperialism''' was meant to be avoided, to banned from our heads. And so we also didn't want to deal with those matters in foreign policy. We wanted to believe that Russia would become less aggressive with time but Putin became too greedy and frustrated and eventually saw imperialism as solution to speed up development to reach old might. The reasons are manifold. America's bad role model, Russia's self-definition, our comfortable focus on geopolitics ignoring economy - just to name a few. Germany should have played a more active role though nobody would have really liked that either. -- Instead of "having hopes", as a minimum condition appeasement would have needed exact monitoring to be responsible. It would have created other kinds of conflict.
+If policy of détente is the continuation of moderate pacifism on state level, appeasement policy may be seen as continuation of a more radical (suicidal) pacifism. In any case Germany had lost its instinct for '''geopolitics''' after it adopted a pacifistic base attitude. After WWII strong nationalism and '''imperialism''' was meant to be avoided, to be banned from our heads. And so we also didn't want to deal with those matters in foreign policy. We wanted to believe that Russia would become less aggressive with time but Putin became nonetheless too greedy and frustrated and eventually saw imperialism as solution to speed up development to reach old might. The reasons are manifold. America being a problematic role model, Russia's self-definition, our comfortable focus on geopolitics ignoring economy - just to name a few. Germany should have played a more active role though nobody would have really liked that either. It would have created other kinds of conflict. -- At least instead of "having hopes", appeasement should have had exact monitoring as minimum condition to be responsible.
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