”You may not be interested in nationalism, but it is still interested in you.”

途中で、『ガチムチビデオ』って言った。なぜそこだけ日本語。 https://t.co/ZOlka047h2

— buvery (@buvery) May 8, 2022

ガチムチビデオ 

 へえええ。知らんかった。 日本の発信力ってすごいね。

Although the United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn’t justify Mr. Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don’t make a right. Russia was wrong to invade.

しかし、ウクライナを侵略したらアウト、とオリバー・ストーンも言っている。

いまロシア擁護している人たちはそれがわかっていない。

   

 「自らの核ミサイル搭載潜水艦システムの開発配備」ーーーこれだな。

 

Elites Are Getting Nationalism All Wrong Russia, the United States, and the European Union are each suffering from resulting disasters.

What is nationalism? The answer has two parts. First, it starts by recognizing that the world is made up of social groups that share important cultural traits (a common language, history, ancestry, geographic origins, etc.), and over time, some of these groups have come to see themselves as constituting a unique entity: a nation. A nation’s claims about its essential character need not be strictly accurate in either biological or historical terms. (Indeed, national narratives are usually distorted versions of the past.) What matters is that members of a nation genuinely believe that they are one.

Second, the doctrine of nationalism further asserts that every nation is entitled to govern itself and should not be ruled by outsiders.

Putin and his associates forgot that nations are often willing to absorb huge losses and fight like tigers to resist foreign invaders, and that is precisely what the Ukrainians have done.

Not only do nations see themselves as unique and special, but they also tend to see themselves as superior to others and therefore destined to triumph if a conflict was to arise. This blind spot makes it harder to recognize that another nation might be its equal (or, god forbid, superior). It was hard for some Americans to understand how the Viet Cong or the Taliban could possibly defeat them, and it seems to have been hard for Putin to recognize that the Ukrainians he regarded as inferior could and would stand up to a Russian invasion.

Liberalism’s emphasis on the individual and his/her/their individual rights is another blind spot, insofar as it directs our gaze away from the social bonds and commitments to group survival that many groups view as more important than individual freedom.

　大国がナショナリズムを軽視、というよりエリートが軽視、ということだろうね。大国もナショナリズムの影響が大きい。

　重要な特徴を共有して一体だ、という幻想をいだいており、他者からの支配を排し自治を求めるのがナショナリズム。しばしば優越意識を伴う。

　ロシアはウクライナのナショナリズムを軽視して失敗し、アメリカはベトナムのナショナリズムを軽視して失敗。アメリカは白人のナショナリズムに苦労し、EUは構成国のナショナリズムに苦労しつつある。