by John Galt » Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:40 am
the verbal assurance to the USSR --which no longer exists -- was "we cannot forsee situations where we would expand". this is not a guarantee. this is a truthful statement at the time. times change, like the USSR no longer exists. when that situation changed, then the whole thing changed
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.