John J. Mearsheimer
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Right.
And it's time to go home.
And once you go home, a good idea would be to stay out.
Well, they did strip a lot of resources out of Germany early in the Cold War.
No, no, no.
It was not economically a net benefit.
That's what I'm saying, right?
It's not a win.
Yeah, yeah.
By the way, if you just think about the collapse of the great empires, you know, we read about the great empires like the British Empire, the Belgian Empire, the French Empire, the Dutch Empire, and so forth and so on.
They've all gone away, okay?
And the question you want to ask yourself is why did they all go away?
Yes.
There are two reasons that are directly related to what we're talking about.
Number one is nationalism.
These people in places like India and the Congo, you name it.
Yes.
And this was true of the United States back in the day.
Of course.
telling them how their politics should be run.