"willful" ignorance... Do we really need to spend time distinguishing nationalism from the fact that the US gets the NBA?

And the fact that you neither need to make any significant sacrifices nor engage in double-think doesn't make willful ignorance easier?

So what you want to claim is that asymmetrical conflict is more likely than symetrical conflict to lead to people in one country being ignorant of the animosity against them in the other country.

Not really. The term nationalism is unhelpful. There seem to be at least two kinds, the we're-great-don't-care-about-anyone-else nation-centric one, and unite-against-the-enemy-us-or-them kind. My point is that being a hegemonic power facilitates the nation-centric kind. The sub-point that a hot symmetric conflict turns nationalism into the second kind pretty much by necessity even if it started out as the first kind. An asymmetric conflict of course allows either kind in the stronger party, presumably that's what your counter-examples show.

WHAA? This is incredibly vague and confusing. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

Presumably you detected a feature that made the post knowably correctable. If that feature wasn't an incoherent or irrational (in light of further evidence you have available) opinion, what was it?