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All Wars Are Fought Twice (2022)

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The American Mythology of War

Nations are founded on violence, on conquest. And what we see in war is oftentimes experiences that are contradictory to a nation's self-image. The United States would not exist without the fractious wars at the beginning,. But all that can be re-narrated again and again in the American mythology as a war of liberation.

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