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by acqq 978 days ago
> These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed.

The US had these teachers:

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...

Always new counties which have to experience that.