Europe's high self image is based on a shell game. Step 1: Commit horrific atrocities. Step 2: Declare that you are now a new country (with the same people), s

Europe's high self image is based on a shell game. Step 1: Commit horrific atrocities. Step 2: Declare that you are now a new country (with the same people), so you stop counting the atrocities against yourself. See how it works? Germany tried to genocide half the population of Earth, the US stops them and builds a bunch of bases in Germany so they don't try that again, and now that is evidence of US abuse and aggression. It's not THAT Germany anymore, the one that did the crimes and has to be occupied to make sure they don't try to stuff every brown child on earth into a brick oven, it's Germany, the great country that is totally innocent. It's not the GB that kept half of the world's population under it's thumb to brutally extract resources and become rich, it's GB the cute country with the Queen. All the crimes have to be ignored and don't count anymore because you have free healthcare (or something). Anyway, you completely miss the point. When the Gestapo was stuffing people into ovens, they were also running Joy Divisions. Guess what kind of guys were signing up to run these bases? In a real civilization these are the kinds of guys who show up in police statistics as serial killers.