08-03-2016, 04:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2016, 04:49 PM by Cynic Hero '86.)
One can embrace nationalism and be pro-western. Germany was western and was a bitter enemy of orthodox and communist Russia. In the Yugoslav example I mentioned Tudjman as well, his performance during his rule in the 1990's was even greater than Milosevic's. Croatia was Catholic and historically an ally of Austria and Germany and an enemy of the Eastern Slavs and Turks. 20th century liberalism is not the all end all of western civilization. I embrace the west of Napoleon, Clausewitz, Bismarck and the Kaisers.