But in the past, there was no national war at all. The war armies were all mercenaries, or reared armies, professional soldiers, and civilians only paid taxes and did not have to fight at all. After the Napoleonic Wars, the establishment of nation-states, the heightened national consciousness, and the replacement of mercenaries by the military service system, everyone was involved in the war. The justice of war requires the consent of the citizens, and war affects the hearts of every citizen, which was unimaginable before.
And the war has become a meat grinder. Whether it is the Civil War or World War I, they are all rifle wars, and they are large-scale rifle wars, and they are all positional warfare. The war is like a meat grinder. Life is laid out. this is too scary. Although the war is controlled by food and shelter, the war has never been so long and cruel.
In the face of the cruel meat grinder, in the face of the long torture, any sense of nationality or national independence is useless. The war cannot bring them wealth, as in the colonial war, the war is only for the victory of the country, and the country is too far away from them.
In World War I, the most serious anti-war after the war were Britain and France, so they repeatedly gave in to Hitler, just because they didn't want to fight again. It was only when the nation-state fell, that they began to resist.
The defeated Germany did not feel how cruel the war was. On the contrary, they were full of national sentiment, and the defeat made their national sentiment even more intense, and this is the best asset to wage war. Hitler seized on this, hence the Second World War.
Anti-war, the anti-war, the anti-war at the beginning and has been anti-statism is the country's conscription system, which involves civilians in the war, which is the same as the war on terror. war. But the current anti-war has even reached anti-war itself, opposing any violence. This is a bit too much. Some wars must be fought. In order to defend freedom and national independence, no one can bear it. It's just as impossible to keep terrorists from resisting. Terrorism is a weapon of the weak, they may not succeed, but you can't morally say they are useless, it's like saying workers' uprisings, peasant uprisings are useless.
So, it's an anti-war movie, but it's a childish anti-war movie where a bunch of innocent people get caught up in a war and don't know anything about it, it's not a serious anti-war attitude, it's like Like anti-disease, it doesn't have much depth.
A real anti-war movie, is it against the war itself, or is it against the purpose of the war? Is it the way of fighting that is the opposite, or is it the life of war? are all problems.
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