Wage Slave wrote:Versailles, esp the land grabbing, contributed that's for sure.
FWIW, I find the UK far more overtly militarised and far more prone to glamourising war than Japan or Germany. No County Fair is complete without a Tank or Multiple Rocket Launcher proudly on display.
Seriously, the last fair I went to had a MRL and they were encouraging small boys to climb up and explore it.
"Borderline infantile" is how I'd put it. All "Keep calm and carry on reminiscing how the Spitfires beat the Bosch over the White Cliffs of Dover while we painted on fake nylons using powdered egg" and all that, while completely missing the wider context.