Sergey Lavrov: I do not want to sound anti-European. But over the past 500 years all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies. The colonisation, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler.

American when they ignore iraaq vietnam korean cold war

And obviously they haven’t learned anything.

sums up why i laugh at snobby europeans who think their shit doesn’t stink. civil wars, ethnonationalist and ethnoreligious wars, genocide… we learned it from you, europe!*

ahistorical and lacking self awareness is a terrible way to go through life. 

*anyone remember the anti drugs PSA where a dad finds his son’s drug stash, goes apeshit and demands to know who taught him to do drugs, and his son shouts ‘i learned it from you, dad!’