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Democratic socialists argued more than a century ago - before the " Great War ", that war to end all wars , that war to "make the world safe for democracy " -- that toxic " patriotism ", bellicose " nationalism ," was a social disease. Getting oppressed and exploited " citizens " of this or that capitalist country obsessed with sinister and cunning " foreign " types, seen as undermining " their " mostly splendid social order, is an old trick of ruling classes in every nation-state on earth , on all continents . The excuse for WAR is always that THE OTHER in the foreign nation does not rise to the high moral level of your virtuous leaders , your ruling class here in " God's Country "; that here at least the interests of the ruling class are essentially identical to interests of the common people that they exploit and oppress every day . Only the BIG LIE today can justify the wars of American imperialism and Israeli Zionism together forever in crimes against humanity. So " what if THEY start a war and nobody shows up ? " .