Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott was beside himself in rage. Well no, the risk is that the Europeans will finally get tired of being pushed around and bullied into undertaking idiotic military capers so as to extend America's imperial reach. The Untied States won the Cold War and almost immediately blew it by trying to subordinate the rest of the world. It now finds itself surrounded by adversarial states and hostile military alliances. The more countries that hate you the more right you must be.
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