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Talking about co-opting stuff: the music that the EU adopted as an anthem goes against everything the EU stands for, but because of corruption not the "core values", not Schiller when he wrote the poem, but the Schiller and Beethoven when the music was written, opposing Napoleon Bonaparte for corrupting and co-opting the "core values" of the French Revolution.
Luckily, the EU doesn't have a Bonaparte, NATO doesn't currently have one (maybe a Turkish wannabe, I don't know) and Russia does.
But it's still rather ugly. Not cool.
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