• marcos@lemmy.world
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    Life is an exercise of optimizing for the lesser evil.

    But some times everybody is so evil that the lesser evil must be called out too. Otherwise you get entire countries believing that maintaining wars all over the world for the next 80 years is normal and the world should thanks them for it.

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      But some times everybody is so evil that the lesser evil must be called out too. Otherwise you get entire countries believing that maintaining wars all over the world for the next 80 years is normal and the world should thanks them for it.

      I don’t think that a lack of being called out is what caused that.

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      1. This is in reference to WW2. ‘Triple Entente’ is the preferred term for the WW1 alliance that Britain was a part of.

      2. Yes, Imperial Germany was literally an aggressor in WW1, invading neutral Belgium to execute its war plans against France.