[Hammer]

I certainly don't want to come across as looking down on the U.S. Anyone who knows even a moderate amount of history knows the U.K. has no position of moral high ground.

I will say patriotism can be a cancer. It brainwashes people from making objective judgements. A very handy method of controlling us. The whole "we" business, them and us. It's holding us back as humans. But if we can all stop seeing ourselves as American or British, or Russian, blindly supporting the home team. Believing what you see and hear on TV without question, maybe then at that point we could start having a little more empathy for the other side. Perhaps seeing what they have done is awful, yet realising we have done the same in our history. Bridges need to be built or this won't end well for anyone.