The UK is currently negotiating an agreement to leave the EU some seventy years after peace was declared in Europe; after a war the horror of which most present-day UK citizens never knew or have completely forgotten.
As the spirit of nationalism walks the streets and cities of the UK, it is not too late to remind the people that the two world wars were fought because of Nationalism.
In WW2, Germany under Hitler set out to subjugate the countries of Europe and at its height occupied Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
Following the peace treaty, the efforts of the peacemakers established the League of Nations and later the United Nations aiming to produce a system of arbitration to defuse potential wars.
Albert Schweitzer in his 1954 Nobel Peace prize lecture said:
Even today, we live in an age characterized by the absence of peace; even today, nations can feel themselves threatened by other nations; even today, we must concede to each nation the right to stand ready to defend itself with the terrible weapons now at its disposal
Nationalism of the worst sort was displayed in the last two wars, and it may be regarded today as the greatest obstacle to mutual understanding between peoples
Yet we in Brexit are planning to cut our ties with the organization of the EU that arguably has been the instrument of peace in Europe for over 50 years.
But it is not too late to jettison the whole EU enterprise and return to the path of cooperation and mutual support. Say No! to Brexit
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