Similarly, the Wilhelmus, now the Dutch national anthem, has some underrated stanzas:

"Na tsuer sal ick ontfanghen
Van Godt mijn Heer dat soet,
Daer na so doet verlanghen
Mijn Vorstelick ghemoet:
Dat is dat ick mach sterven
Met eeren in dat Velt,
Een eewich Rijck verwerven
Als een ghetrouwe Helt."

That's imagery written by someone who knew what he was talking about www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Et...

"t Moedige, bloedige, woedige swaerd
blonck en het klonck, dat de voncken daer uyt vlogen.
Beving en leving, opgeving der aerd,
wonder gedonder, nu onder was, nu boven,
door al 't mijnen en 't geschut
dat men daeg'lycx hoorde;
menig Spanjaert in syn hut,
in syn bloet versmoorde"

"Helpt den herder die voor u strijt,
of helpt den wolf die u verbijt;
weest niet meer neutralisten;
vernielt den tyran, 't is meer dan tijdt,
met al zijn tyrannisten."
youtu.be/xFLdFCw23hc?...

Here is one of the key paragraphs.

Also that

As always, being a non-party to a situation yet having an emotional interest just means you're probably a fucking tool for somebody in it. What do I give a shit about Blake Lively being a good person or not? Why does my opinion suddenly matter in this? Oh I'm a tool.

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The first problem is that in a globalized world, economies with open capital and trade accounts automatically import their industrial policies as the obverse of the industrial policies of their more aggressively interventionist trade partners.

carnegieendowment.org/china-financ...

Then you have the matter of those Syrians who do not want to return. For some it can be too hard and too scary, after fleeing for your life it is understandable to be wary about returning no matter what the situation. There will also be those who have built lives now, and want to keep them. 5/

We are already seeing Syrian refugees attempting to return home. That's not surprising. Despite what certain politicians and pundits claim, the vast majority of refugees want to return home as quickly as possible, hence why most remain in regions of origin. 2/

And this is the big difference with the past: where economic development almost automatically made you better equipped for conflict, it is now like both goals are in conflict. And it feels like we're on the cusp of some great recalibration.

Where it's not necessarily about defence-specific industries disappearing, but about supply chains and tangentially related yet vital industries. Sure, you can get guns made in Europe. But what about routers, drones, steel? Is there anyone who doubts that these will be vital in a prolonged conflict?

But there is plenty of ambivalence about this anyway - I can't be the only one slightly nostalgic about brands and industries that have long since disappeared. But the consequences are more severe in the context of defence and national security...