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I had a whole big thing written out, arguing this way and that, but then at the end I came to a bigger question. I am not aware of any conquest that failed for being too cruel. Not the Germans, Japanese, Belgians, nor Spanish.

No, cultures are negatively driven and positively pulled. Dignity pulls, it does not drive. When you are describing the emotive forces of cultures you can either describe them as they are driven or as they are pulled, but you must never conflate the two.

There are shame, guilt and fear cultures, which means that in geo-politics there are three different games being played. If you are a one-game kind of guy then you lose because most of the other players aren't playing by your rules. If you are faced with a fear based player then you have to...

Who wore it better: Russia or the US? I mean, Russia had the US funding opposition, they had a calm withdrawal, and most of the current infrastructure and stuff in the country seems to have been built by them (might be wrong about that by this point, but it's probable that anything we built...