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Originally Posted by Fuchs
The context of the quote was me explaining why the U.S. isn't enough of an empire to reap the benefits of imperial arrogance.
Or the penalties of that arrogance.
Either way, I don't see how that particular set of imperial methods is really applicable to today's non-imperial small wars.
“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”
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