>>514795272
>I like the idea they were a people with a profound common sense who held sacred the necessity of living in balance with the environment rather than trying to strangle wealth out of it.
That is a nice idea, but it is a Rousseau-esque noble savage fairy tale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump
In reality, everyone is a brutal cutthroat. People just like to pretend that either
a) they uniquely aren't (see christians and jews justifying brutally crushing all other cultures with their retarded appeals to peace and morality)
b) they uniquely are (see libshits justifying our own genocide by pretending we're the only ones to have ever done a mean thing to anyone)

>>514788170
Don't gaslight us.

>From the past we can learn only one lesson. And this is that the aim which is to be pursued in our political conduct must be twofold: namely (1) the acquisition of territory as the objective of our foreign policy and (2) the establishment of a new and uniform foundation as the objective of our political activities at home, in accordance with our doctrine of nationhood.

>To demand that the 1914 frontiers should be restored is a glaring political absurdity that is fraught with such consequences as to make the claim itself appear criminal. The confines of the REICH as they existed in 1914 were thoroughly illogical; because they were not really complete, in the sense of including all the members of the German nation. Nor were they reasonable, in view of the geographical exigencies of military defence. They were not the consequence of a political plan which had been well considered and carried out. But they were temporary frontiers established in virtue of a political struggle that had not been brought to a finish; and indeed they were partly the chance result of circumstances.