Would you fight for your country?

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  1. Dépend against who, I guess. And for what.

    I’d not defend my country against Russia invasion but I’d happily invade Belgium to provide them a decent football team.

  2. Depends a lot on the question. No doubt in eastern europe ‘fight for your country’ brings up feelings of defending it from Russia.

    But in western europe it more likely means go shoot up the middle east so country leader can suck up to the current US president in a pathetic attempt to be relevant.

  3. This seems like a question that’s interpreted differently depending on your history. Finland has been invaded multiple times so “would you fight for your country” is probably interpreted as “would you defend your country against an invasion”. The Netherlands, however, is in the NATO where “fight for your country” is probably to a larger extent interpreted as “will you join military missions your country partakes in”.

  4. If my country was being invaded by a foreign power? Sure. If my country started another useless war on the other side of the world? Of course not.

  5. I would gladly fight for my country if it meant defending it from foreign invaders, but no way that I would go invade some other country or fight in some useless war.

  6. I remember a joke that the Finns when asked whether they would defend their country, they automatically assume it’s from the Russians. When asked about an invasion from the West instead, they ask “ah so the Russians are invading us through Sweden”

  7. The question isn’t whether I’d be willing to fight for my country (I would) but whether my country wants or needs a 5ft3 untrained 30 year old woman with bad asthma to fight for it…

  8. I would fight for my country. I would fight against my country. I would stay out of it. Against whom and why are quite important questions.

  9. ”Fight” is really masking the reality of ”fighting, getting maimed, getting badly hurt, and/or dying”. It’s easy for us to say we’d fight if we mask the reality of what modern warfare is, and I hate how it’s romanticized, especially for young men. Fighting for your nation should not be an easy answer, since the ultimate question is ”are you willing to accept the risk of getting maimed, injured or die for your nation state”. For me the answer is and always has been – no. I’m not willing to die or get hurt for my nation, not at all. The priority is to save and protect my family.

  10. As usual with this type of question the question is way too vague.

    I would not go fight fuck knows where to defend corporate interests. I would fight for my country if it was invaded directly though.

    « Fighting for your country » is way too vague an expression.

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