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It was also obvious to all my friends when I was a teenager in 2008 that being friends with America was a bad idea. That also turned out to be right.

All we would have had to do was have no allies for the past ~60 years, and we would have never gotten burned. We also would have been entirely irrelavant to international politics, and likely wouldn't have become one of the richest nations on earth.

World politics is like love. It's better to have had a productive alliance that hits a rough patch, than never to have had one at all.



as it happens I was completely wrong about the US, I did not expect them to fall to Moscow that easily.

To be fair, the French got it right - they have their own nuclear deterrent and their own weapons manufacturing.




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