My country has had a civil war, invasions by the french, by the spanish, more recently a revolution that threw a fascist government, followed by a very colourful period of internal squirmishes between anti-regime forces, but we settled those events and that was that: off to the history books.
What motivates so many people to re-enact battles from the American Civil War?
It sounds cruel. Re-enacting a war where so many died gruesome deaths.
I’d rate the Italians as less problematic, but the Imperial Japanese have a lot of blood on their hands as well.
And as horrific chattel slavery has come out to be, there are still whitewashers of it.