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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset

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