So, Napoleon is respectable but Hitler is not?
The citing of these two precedents places the EU in a different light. The means become suspect, clouding the ends.
It would seem the current culprit is a consensus of Social Democrats
rather than the undefined mass mind described by Tolstoy in War and Peace.
The concept is interesting and should not be rejected out of hand
Obama said there would be consequences
Well, if Social Democrats, don’t forget that Lenin’s CPSU started as the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia.