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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's probably the norm. Finland, the posterboy of peace, started its independence with a civil war and continued by joining the Nazis in WW2 against Soviet Union.

Seems to me that there are two kinds of nations on this planet: dead ones and those that were at some point based on violence.