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    Quote Originally Posted by blueblood View Post
    This might help you in learning some things.

    http://www.globescan.com/news_archiv...6-3/index.html
    Nothing new or unusual there.

    Since when has any nation's foreign policy been based on a search for global popularity?
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”

    H.L. Mencken

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
    Since when has any nation's foreign policy been based on a search for global popularity?
    1949-1998, (West) Germany.
    It came very, very close.

    Sweden is another candidate, an certain countries with tourism-based economy (or maybe even recently Qatar and UAE?) come close, too.

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