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There are very few circumstances in which I would fight for any country. Although I have a great deal of respect for history, I believe that national boundaries are the worst excuse to send ordinary people out to kill other ordinary people.
Look at Europe: a thousand years of war for what? Today the people live alongside each other, travelling through and living in each other's countries with little formality. How many people died through the centuries for nothing better than an attempt by someone to satisfy their fleeting ambitions?
These days the window-dressing is different. We will not be summarily executed for refusing to serve and leaders who are supposedly our representatives will attempt - albeit less than honestly on occasion - to explain why we must go and shoot someone who lives in a place we maybe couldn't even find on a map. But nothing has changed in that most wars are about greed or ideology and the people sent to fight them rarely have a stake in either.
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