[CapricornNoble]

>What is true dishonour if not to betray a friend in need?

Great Powers don't have friends. Nor do they have enemies. They only have eternal Interests. (paraphrasing a quote often attributed to Henry Kissinger)

As I was looking for a more exact source for this quote, I stumbled upon this interesting piece in Time Magazine....from 1955:

https://time.com/archive/6798908/no-friends-no-enemies-just-... IT is high time the United States quit throwing money and materials around the world like a drunken sailor and settled on a foreign policy clearly consonant with our national interests first and foremost. We pile deficit on deficit until we threaten ourselves with bankruptcy.