Bro…
Reality check: historically, people have always killed their own “blood” and closest historical kin way more than distant strangers hundreds or thousands of miles away — especially in the West among white European and American groups.
Look at the record: White Americans butchered each other in the American Civil War — over 700,000 dead (some estimates now put it at 750,000+), more Americans than died in all other U.S. wars combined. Same “blood and history,” different politics and power — and they still turned the country into a meat grinder.
Go further back in Europe: The English Civil War (1640s) saw Englishmen slaughter Englishmen — roughly 200,000 dead in the British Isles, a massive percentage of the population at the time, with English vs. English making up the core.
French Catholics and French Protestants (all white French “blood”) fought the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598) and killed 2–4 million of their own through war, famine, and massacre.
The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) turned Central Europe into a charnel house — 4.5 to 8 million dead, almost entirely white Europeans (Germans, Swedes, French, Spanish, etc.) fighting over religion and power within the same broad Western Christian “history.” Whole regions lost half their population.
Blood and history didn’t magically create loyalty or peace. Shared values, trust, and real institutions do a lot more to hold a people together than “kinship” ever has.
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