There is no intent to 'purposely insult the nationality' of anybody. There is an intent to challenge nationalism that seems to be shouted loudly, and rudely. That's not okay. Let's be done with this and move on.
OK, done - but you must remember, I did not object to simple challenge to 'nationalism that seems to be shouted loudly'. This is a straw man framing of the context discussed.
One must be conscious of their words. There is objection and there is damnation (see the decades-festering polemic immediately above my post here). We are seeing the handiwork of the latter evolve inside international politics. ('One' and 'You' are addressed collectively here, and possibly exclusive of you Michael... so do not take personal offence).
Never fool yourself. Objection elicits discussion. Damnation elects Trumps.
I oppose Iran, but would never over-react about Iran in the manner conducted in the posts here, never frame its citizens in such a dark and misguided, propaganda-infused set of
poor intent. Iran is a beautiful nation, with a rich deep past and wonderful character of people. But the US opposes their Mullahs' (Iran is a Theocracy) intent to destroy your nation as one of their eschatological targets (just in case you have not been informed of that little detail).
To wit, given the level of enthusiasm for 'global awareness' and 'nation-justice' implied loudly in this thread:
How many of you have studied the Re-construction of Iraq? What did you see occur there? Who "owns their oil" now and what do they use the margin proceeds for those crude oil sales for?
Who supplies the oil and gas for the Balkan nations, how did this come about and what is the overall tax-to-sovereign debt labor burden placed upon on the workers in those nations. How did corruption play into this? Which ministers sit on Greek Islands on their yachts with some of this gain?
How many of you were involved in the Jordanian refugee crisis? What was the makeup of the people in those camps and what timeframe did they have to flee inside? Who initiated this exodus (hint: it was not the US)?
How many of you have done a famine strategy, and what was the actual cause of the famine in that region? What mechanisms are used to mitigate such shortfalls? Who actually caused the famine and why?
How many of you were a part of the engagement team which countered the Ebola 2014 outbreak? What did you learn there?
How many of you have worked with people in nations under Bush's PEPFAR revitalization programs? What was the response from the nations involved? How do they regard that program now? What are the historical reasons why infrastructure cannot be developed there (and who is exempt from those apparent barriers?)?
How many of you have done an audit of US defense systems and evaluated their strategic role/mission, the deployment footprint and the cost of that footprint in terms of Command Control and Logistics? How did that compare to Russia Iran and China's audit of systems-roles? What did you learn in that audit?
What is the mission difference between a missile, rocket, tank and a ship? Which are offensive/empire building and which are in-common defensive? Do you know the 'cost to maintain', ratio versus a 'cost to deploy?' How did the world learn these lessons? In what theatre of war? Who died as a result of its ignorance?
What is the purpose of a one-and-done military asset, and who uses such assets globally? To what end?
What is the impact of an 'open shipping lane' or 'straight' on human suffering?
What is the diabetes rate in India or Kazakhstan? How does it compare between urban and traditional lifestyles?
How many of you have done business with Russian, Chinese or Iranian companies - started global markets and surveyed the makeup of the grey and black markets which operate globally? What is their net effect in terms of UN monitored human suffering? Who operates these markets and through what mechanisms does that money flow? Who do they target for harm?
Which nations in the world operate off of 40:1 leveraged bankshares, and what do they use that money for?
How many of you have studied the most recent 8 national border conflicts globally? What was the impetus for each and who was the aggressor?
How many of you have ranked and surveyed the debt ratio's of nations held at the World Bank/IMF. How is this sovereign debt shortfall addressed?
If a suffering nation issues a grant of sovereign debt, who finances it and who opposes that financing globally?
Which nations operate with the highest percent of mafia economics? How does a mafia differ from a cartel in their exchange of margin flows?
Who provides the leveraged taxed labor to trade-instrument wrap and finance these initiatives?? In which countries do these laborers reside and how many days labor do they expend for this leveraging process to work?
What is the difference between a sourcing economy, a raw materials economy and a demand economy - and who upon today's world stage seeks to exploit which for their military gain? Which economy makes for an artificial life-of-ease/high sovereign ceiling for its citizens and can delude them into thinking the rest of the world is just like them? (Hint, the US is not a raw materials economy).
How many of you know the top 5 strategic threats as outlined by China, India, Turkey, Vietnam etc....??? (and no, they do not include the 'Bully-US')
And it does not even have to be this stuff in particular - just, if you claim to have definitive final conclusions in these arenas, then perhaps you should actually know something about them - other than warmed-over agency regurgitation. Substantiate your claim that Americans are clueless/evil bullies, and that you are a member of the globally enlightened elite who know what is what...
If we are going to shift back to simple objection to nationalism as the context of this discussion now - I am all onboard for that, as I object to extreme nationalism as well.
But no more canned shtick please. I would encourage that we elevate the discussion above the level of Dr. Zolovitch's Childrens' hour on 1977 Soviet Central TV.