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History is mostly a matter of dates, and the key date is always that of the last conquest. All previous conquests are then magically forgiven and forgotten.
She feels guilty only because she doesn’t understand how history works. The people she is apologizing to were almost certainly once conquerors themselves. History always worked like that. The wars of the European great powers in the ‘modern’ era were just variations on a theme, and nothing really changed until 1945.The politics of the Second World War were familiar, but the technologies had grown too powerful: the Second World War killed at least 40 million people and, by the end, they were using nuclear weapons.
This involved the freezing of many historical injustices because almost all borders were the result of past wars, not of free votes or legal decisions. However, allowing the borders to be changed by force again would open the door to future wars ad infinitum, so they would have to stay where they are – forever.It made sense. Indeed, there were no good alternatives, and the new rule is still being observed in the vast majority of cases even eight decades later.
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