“Unfortunately ‘global safety’ is nothing more than Shangri-La politics – a beautiful fiction that was subverted the minute it began empowering nefarious dictatorships leaving all foolish enough to chase it set on doomed expeditions. Its laws drape across the world like sheets of ice, built by years of Winter. Undisturbed, these expensive veils make for picturesque views so long as they are never tested by the earthquakes of colliding interest…” (originally the third last paragraph).

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