You get taken over by former Asian colonies or vassal states, as enemies now, stronger than you.
Former so called allies like Russia now confront you from positions of greater strength than yours.
Former enemies, like Germany, now look more like fellow victims, whose defeat the likes of Putin no longer even deign to commemorate as a hollow victory for the West, but rather for the East.
Former so called allies like Russia now confront you from positions of greater strength than yours.
Former enemies, like Germany, now look more like fellow victims, whose defeat the likes of Putin no longer even deign to commemorate as a hollow victory for the West, but rather for the East.
"If we could afford to preserve an opera-bouffe political system, in which everything was taken in the spirit of Strauss' 'Fledermaus,' I should be the last person to oppose anything which could add so materially to the humor of it as our type of amateurism in government.......But if death, torture and misery are not laughing matters, then neither is political life in these times; for death, torture and misery have become the penalties of political failure." Kennan's Manuscript Part I, pp. 11-12, Kennan Papers.
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