Rosa Luxemburg
"Gone is the euphoria. Gone the patriotic noise in the streets, the chase after the gold-colored automobile, one false telegram after another, the wells poisoned by cholera, the Russian students heaving bombs over every railway bridge in Berlin, the French airplanes over Nuremberg, the spy hunting public running amok in the streets, the swaying crowds in the coffee shops with ear-deafening patriotic songs surging ever higher, whole city neighborhoods transformed into mobs ready to denounce, to mistreat women, to shout hurrah and to induce delirium in themselves by means of wild rumors. Gone, too, is the atmosphere of ritual murder, the Kishinev air where the crossing guard is the only remaining representative of human dignity."
The meaning of this passage can relate to any political conflict around the world after a war. By reading this passage, it becomes clear that no country ever "wins" a war. If a ward ends its either because one side its already completed destroyed unable to fight again or because they found some sort of agreements to end it. In both cases, all countries involved in the war get affected no matter what. If there's only one side left able to fight, it gets to control somehow the other country(ies) that have been annihilated or rendered completely. However, once a war begins its most likely to always end in how Lexumberg described Germany in her essay.
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