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America is a (remote) 'warrior' nation. We don't suffer from a disease, we 'fight' the disease, we 'lose the fight' with cancer, we fight 'wars on poverty' and

America is a (remote) 'warrior' nation. We don't suffer from a disease, we 'fight' the disease, we 'lose the fight' with cancer, we fight 'wars on poverty' and 'wars on crime'. There's no need to normalize the word in America. Aside from some short periods, we've been fighting an armed conflict somewhere in the world (except the homeland) since forever. This is important. Because Europeans still have some well deserved collective memories about what war means, considering it happened in their backyard. It's harder to swindle the word 'war' around Europe as people know what it means way better than the American collective mind.

throwaway91914 6y ago
Despite the idiotic downvotes you are spot on. In most languages and societies in Europe and Asia people don't use words like "fight", "war", "kill" so easily or as euphemisms.
- squarefoot 6y ago
  > In most languages and societies in Europe and Asia people don't use words like "fight", "war", "kill" so easily or as euphemisms. Not sure about Asia, but over here in Europe some politicians leaning far right often use the above military words. But that comes to no surprise given the mindset.