Same Head of the Coin - Same War, Same Reason?

        Proffered throughout the first four chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front is the idea of what common men think of the start of the war and who was responsible. As the narrator, Paul, and his friends talk of the causes they all reach the same conclusion: that the power-hungry, faceless, nameless, high-rise men in politics are to blame. They concur that said men act out with declarations and paper and don't think of the fighting men actually progressing the war, such as Paul and his friends. The question is: are the views that Paul and company express universal?
        The way they express these feelings is as common men, soldiers fighting a war issued by other, more powerful men. They, as of yet in the book, have not spoke of the war as Germans, just as soldiers. It leads to the feeling that these ideas, these emotions are universally conducted amongst those who're fighting. A large reason many of these kinds of wars start is nationalism–national pride–and protection of the homeland. Many people can agree on such, so it deems to reason that men on the British, Italian, or Russian sides also express such feeling towards the political conductors of World War One and any other senior officer in their midst showing just how much hunger for power authority can give a man. Think of the soldiers' ideas on each side of a coin: except both sides of the coin are the same; so any way you flip it, it lands the same side up. So all fighting men, all soldiers, share the same national pride for the homeland, and the same resentment towards those who hold too much power to wield.