{"id":13356,"date":"2018-11-11T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/11\/in-remembering-wwi-world-warned-of-resurging-old-demons\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:14:52","slug":"in-remembering-wwi-world-warned-of-resurging-old-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/military-honor\/2018\/11\/11\/in-remembering-wwi-world-warned-of-resurging-old-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"In remembering WWI, world warned of resurging \u2018old demons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PARIS \u2014 World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve peace solemnly marked the end of World War I\u2019s slaughter 100 years ago at commemorations Sunday that drove home the message \u201cnever again\u201d but also exposed the globe\u2019s new political fault lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and dozens of other heads of state and government listened in silence, French President Emmanuel Macron used the occasion, as its host, to sound a powerful and sobering warning about the fragility of peace and the dangers of nationalism and of nations that put themselves first, above the collective good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death,” Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” he said. “In saying ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others,’ you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, ostensibly the main target of Macron’s message, sat stony-faced. The American president has proudly declared himself a nationalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\t