Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "The Legacy Of Nationalism Since The Great War | The Long Shadow (3/3) | Timeline" video.

  1. An interesting take on the after affect's of the war and the role nationalism played in European politics then and now. As an American, I look at the war through a different lens since outside of Pearl Harbor, my nation didn't experience the long conflict at the at the ground level. There was no battle for New York and at the end of the day we came out of both wars stronger than when we went in. But then we picked up the mantle of world management for lack of better term and spent a lot of blood and treasure on matters that 100 years earlier would not have concerned us. The shadow of both wars does spread far and wide. As for the fate of nationalism moving forward, I believe it is being replaced by a form of global corporatism. National identities are being submerged into global markets and the new alliances between corporate entities and state-run government's is altering the way people look at each other and to a large extent how future conflicts will unfold and be fought. There may be a time when large armies roam the countryside again, grabbing up resources along the way, but not before the age of the technocrat has run its course. The world is linked in a unique way where the old rules not only do not apply, most have been scrubbed from the national consciousness. Strange times indeed.
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