A case of nationalist idolatry

Here is what is, to all appearances, a remarkably clear instance of insane, power-worshiping, destructive nationalism of the kind embraced by the Nazis. It comes, however, from Canada in 2005. The Epoch Times then reported that

. . . support for [Major-General] Zhu [Chenghu]’s nuclear threat against the U.S. is alive in Canada’s Chinese communities, where many who grew up under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda view the statements as proof of their homeland’s new strength.
      The “New Horizon,” a tabloid-size periodical produced by the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada (CPAC) ran a story on page 3 of its August 5 edition praising Zhu’s speech.
      “Zhu Chenghu’s theory of a nuclear war for the first time vividly describes how hundreds of cities east of Xian and in America could be destroyed,” the article said.
      “This can be seen as the nuclear ideal and goal of the Chinese people since China first developed nuclear technology. The nuclear force is the power of a state, and the power of a state cannot lack a goal.”
      CPAC claims membership of 20,000 Chinese professionals in Canada, ranging from accountants to zoologists. The organization was part of a recent welcome dinner for China’s new ambassador to Canada.

The maximum power of a state is paramount, even if the only opportunity for exercising it is in wiping out most of the state's own population centres. A reductio ad absurdum of nationalism.

(See also Simone Weil and nationalism)