re: Subtleties
For years I thought the Germans under Hitler were purely and simply "evil" and so were the Japanese in 1941.
But then, reading history books, I've learned what happened right after the first World War. The Versailles Treaty of 1919 and the isolation of the Germans as well as Clemenceau's arrogance.
No nation, no culture, no religion is by essence "evil". If they look that way to us, there's a reason and we must correct that before it's too late.
Raoul