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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77395904  United States12/14/2019 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| callit
User ID: 73324072 United States12/14/2019 08:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an uncompetitive loser's strategy. Something you resort to when you know you can't win but just refuse to die honorably. It's one step above plugging your ears and screaming "KARMA -- WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND", right before your taller, smarter, more physically attractive opponent splits your skull wide open with a warhammer. Quoting: Blitzdicker 29649566 I don't think you thought through that very well at all. I think there is a GOOD reason the proverb goes back to 4 BCE. Especially, in the sense of warfare. The idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" functioned in various guises as foreign policy by Allied powers during the Second World War. In Europe, tension was common between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. Despite their inherent differences, they recognized a need to work together to meet the threat of Nazi aggression, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Both U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were wary of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. However, both developed policies with an understanding that Soviet cooperation was necessary for the Allied war effort to succeed... [link to en.wikipedia.org] It's difficult to say how things would have went otherwise. Is history written by the Truth, or the perpetrators of war? |
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