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  • plantifa [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The ruler who relies on friendship and support from distant countries, makes light of his relations with close neighbours, counts on the aid from big powers, and provokes surrounding countries, is liable to ruin.

    -Han Fei, Portents Of Ruin ( The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu Vol. I, trans. by Arthur Probsthain)