You’re missing the point. If you grew up there, you would be one of those “cowardly pu**ies”. You have some fire in your belly because you’re an American. If you were a Finn, well, most likely you would not have it.
And yet in 1940 the Finns inflicted such a fearful slaughter on the invading Russians that their favorite saying was,
“So many Russians...where will we bury them all?”
What has happened since then?