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Hm, that seems like a false dichtonomy.

Why could it not be both?



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Do you lack the general sense of time and can’t tell if we’re living in the 1940s or 2020s?

Surely Russia can’t be imperialist wither because they defeated Napoleon back in 1813? (your “argument” makes about as much sense).


the Brits defeated Napoleon, and that's why there never was a British empire.


Well of course. They saved Europe from tyranny. It would be the definition of historical revisionism to claim they could do anything wrong after that.

Also I wouldn’t say that Waterloo was more important than Leipzig or Napoleon’s trip to Moscow.




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