This war SUCKS...
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Two centuries later, Americans and Europeans have traded places - and perspectives. This is partly because in those 200 years, and especially in the recent decades, the power equation has shifted dramatically: When the United Staes was weak, it practiced the strategies of indirection, the strategies of weakness; now that the United States is powerful, it behaves as powerful nations do. When the European great powers were strong, they believed in strength and martial glory. Now they see the world through weaker powers. These very different points of view have naturally produced different strategic judgments, differing assessments of threats and of proper means of addressing them, idffering calculatioins of interest, and differing perspectives on the value and meaning of international law and institutions.