“It is easy to fan the flames of war.
It's easy to spread jingoism.
But conflicts very rarely end in unconditional surrender, ”said McNamara, quoted by RIA Novosti.
He stressed that conflicts are ended by people who engage in "painful and painstaking negotiations with forces with which they deeply disagree."
British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg earlier criticized the statement of the head of the European Commission and called it "undiplomatic, unreasonable and wrong."
According to TASS, von der Leyen, speaking in Dublin, said that the people of Ireland, like no other, "know what it means to fight for the right to exist" of their state, and today "another European nation is fighting for its independence."