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Pretty hard to be loyal to a national flag if you consider that Rome never had a flag, innit?

>But muh legions had standards they held onto.
Of course. But they didn't necessarily even have to be flags and what was on them was completely up to the legion. If I, Julius Biggus Diccus wanted to have Rei as the flag of our Legion, I could and the boys would protect it with their lives.
That's clearly not the sort of loyalty to a standardised, internationally recognised and deeply symbolic flag that anon was talking about.