This is not a question of 'cosmopolitan globalism' or some-such, but a recognition that freedom grows stronger when shared - that liberty is easier to protect alongside friends who are also free.
This is not a question of 'cosmopolitan globalism' or some-such, but a recognition that freedom grows stronger when shared - that liberty is easier to protect alongside friends who are also free.
Doesn't "cosmopolitan globalism" mean "Jewish"?
Certainly seems to when the Nazis say it, but here I am looking to dismiss the idea that caring about democracy abroad is somehow unpatriotic.
Fair!
Who was it that posted the quote from Cicero yesterday?
none of us is free until we are all free
I support liberty abroad for my own country's sake and so for my own sake.
It sucks when moral arguments have to be made in self-interested terms because of what it says about the intended audience
The Poles say "For our freedom and yours" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_our...
Ukrainians too!
Fucking THIS.
Domino theory (complimentary)!
agreed on all counts though from the way the baddies talk i suspect "cosmopolitan globalism" and "liberty" refer to *almost* one and the same class of things