Is nationalism the opposite of patriotism ?

President Emmanuel Macron of France speaking today at a ceremony in Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the first world war armistice ;

"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” he said. “In saying ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others,’ you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values.”

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

I don't really see how patriotism is an "exact opposite" of nationalism. Depending on the form of nationalism and the intensity in which it's experienced, you can also be a patriot. There are just forms of nationalism that destroy patriotism, mainly those forms that demand uncritical worship of this concept of "the nation" and this concept of "destiny" that the nation has. This is also particulairly true if "the nation" hasn't acquired the territory yet of which it wants to be sovereign, or lives in a territory with people that are not considered part of the nature but still is perceived from the outside as a nation-state by those that don't belong in this national fantastic construction. It's specifically those forms of nationalism that consider their own interest to be more important then that of "the other". And that rots the nation-state that already excists, but which idea(l) isn't shared by those that are nationalists and define it in other ways.