> in contrast, protecting one's homeland typically involves defending intangible values such as national identity, sovereignty, family, culture, and freedom. what you're saying here is true if the choice is between fighting and giving up. conquest of your homeland and occupation can result in loss of all of those things. however leaving allows for the preservation of national identity, family, culture, and freedom, while "sovergnty" has only ever belonged to the halls of power, so its not something regular people lose in the first place.   > because now they wont be ethnically cleansed. what do you think they were doing to each other before they had a great satan to unite them?
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