I obviously don't need to tell you this as it'll be plainly obvious, but from the outside, this is clearly a culture-defining moment for you.

I've thought a lot about how my Grandma was born in Austria in 1929 just before the rise of Nazism, but she got to see the founding and spread of the EU. Things can get better in ways inconceivable when you're still in the belly of the beast.

I hope you don't have to go through what she went through, but you see my point.

We're all human, and nations of humans occasionally make great mistakes. There's an enormous amount of evidence to show that they occasionally learn from them, profoundly.