I mean, Vonnegut sure as shit knew that when he wrote those words. 30 years later he was in the basement of a slaughterhouse when his countrymen firebombed him

I mean, Vonnegut sure as shit knew that when he wrote those words. 30 years later he was in the basement of a slaughterhouse when his countrymen firebombed him and the rest of the city into slag, after all. And I distinctly recall a rather large and conspicuously non-Western nation being involved in that particular war. Possibly more than that, depending on how you count.