Lessons from history
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The trouble with citing history and a failure to learn from it, is that as your correspondent F Cross illustrates, each nation state teaches it from a nationalist perspective allowing mythology to run rife (Are we really stronger together? April reasoned rational co-operation.
Until that lesson is learned we must accept living in a dangerous unpredictable world, unwilling to contain the appeals to demagogic unreasoning emotion and misguided hatreds, and remain our own worst enemies.