politicians in banana republics always use "Nationalism" as a cover-up for corruption
Across the history the nationalism has been used as a cover-up for... almost everything. Every war was motivated by "patriotic" reasons, understood as just an other, more "subtle" form of the same well-known nationalism. That's why the EU actually does have its sense, as something that at least in theory tries to make some achievements above the nationalisms. If only there was less bureaucracy in it...
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