Is it any different than the Civil War discussions that happen here?
When presidents and politicians start having such historical discussions it means trouble.
Yes, it’s different because it’s very unusual to find passionate hatred in America remaining from the civil war. Most of it is almost humorous ribbing. We don’t set national policy from the civil war anymore. And the actual people who fought it had a series of reunions and BBQs in the 19teens and 1920s.
Despite a few modern communists trying to take down monuments, the Civil war is not a major animus for anything beyond the extreme minority in America.
Europeans are different. They passionately hate the others for lame meaningless Euro-squabbles from decades and centuries ago.