🇺🇸 Many Americans don’t realize this but for the overwhelming majority of people around the world, “the nation” is not a piece of paper, a set of abstract ideas, or a landmass. It’s a people, and wherever the people are, therein lies the nation.

So we see this and cannot comprehend why migrants from Mexico would come to the US and then fly the Mexican flag to protest against being deported back to Mexico. But to them, this makes perfect sense because Mexico does not stop on the Rio Grande. It exists wherever they live.

Civic Nationalism only exists in Western Protestant countries like the US, UK, and Canada, and over the past two centuries it has spread to much of Western and Northern Europe as a consequence of the French Revolution and two world wars.

But isn’t found in any other corner of the earth. And when Americans or Brits or Canadians inevitably encounter people from the rest of the world, they’re confused about why they aren’t enlightened post-national liberals like themselves.

Why would they be?

🔗 Christian Heiens

🇺🇸🪖 New U.S. Army tank platoon doctrine is out.

Includes instructions for targeting quadcopters with the main gun of an M1A2 Abrams MBT.

https://fxtwitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1943876049802064248