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phillipgoodrich t1_jecla92 wrote
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Rather echoes the U.S. response at the close of Vietnam, which the U.S. clearly lost.
quantdave t1_jecp64a wrote
... or Britain's various colonial withdrawals, portrayed as a generous granting of independence that had of course been intended all along. In Germany it became bound up with sinister ultranationalist tropes and militaristic nostalgia for supposed wartime solidarity: at least few Vietnam vets wanted a re-run, even if political figures envisaged a global comeback.
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