>>Actually, if anyone cares to dig deep enough in history, I guess there'll be not just bloody thrones, enslaved people, chopped heads etc, but also cannibals, if we only go far enough. And I also don't think that Walter forgot that Netherlands was a colonial power too.
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>>So, if the prevailing theory is that who lives in a glass house shouldn't cast the first stone, then we can simply stop talking about politics altogether and go for a drink of our choice, eh?
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>There is one interesting thing about this. I don't recall anyone stating that someone should stop talking about anything. I only recall someone claiming that as an interpretation (their own) of messages. No one has suggested anything of the kind or I missed it.

Maybe not today, and I may not remember exactly who said what, but there were such sentiments expressed here and there, which is...

> You can read anything into any message you like. There's a lot of that going around...

...how I understood Walter's message. Where I may be wrong, as well. I know I was recommended to return to Russia.

But Walter has one valid point - in this sort of dispute, Americans are at disadvantage. Everybody else knows their history, maybe better then they themselves, simply because they're so good at selling it. The official or Hollywood version. And they're not buying much of such intellectual property from the rest of the world, and not speaking much of other languages also puts them at further disadvantage. A web search may begin as an honest attempt to level the playground, but on the web you'll find the sellers first, loudmouths next, truth maybe, if by fortieth page of links you haven't fainted. And these are all probably from the same kind of sources which caused this imbalance in the first place, so you may not get too far.