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> If you're the 10,000-pound gorilla you don't get instabilized by the small 10 pound zoo animals That's not always true for either countries[1] or animals[2].

• coldtea 12y ago
  They didn't "de-stabilize" UK, they just re-gained their freedom (as much as they could, they're still tied with 100 different ways to their old masters). It's not like some small nation came and took Wales from the UK -- which would be actual de-stabilizing.
• Retric 12y ago
  There is a big difference between a 10 pound animal and lots of 100-400lb pigs on fire. Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling them to death. From of foreign policy standpoint it's often less about the entire country vs small groups of well-connected people with foreign interests. In the end most of what the US government does is easier to understand when you reolise and account for just how corrupt it is. EX: US immigration policy seems vary reasonable when you reolise exploting both legal and illigal immigrants makes some people lot's of money.