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Collaboration Is Risky. If It Fails, If The Occupation Is Wound Up Prematurely And The Bad Guys Come Back To Power, You Might Find Yourself In Some Serious Trouble.

My Arguments For Liberal Empire Or Whatever You Want To Call It - Hegemony, Primacy, You Name It - Are Really Activated By A Sense That The Alternatives Involve More Violence, More Repression, More Hardship.

A Historian Is Battling All The Time To Remember As Much As Possible.

Why Did The Germans And Japanese Keep Fighting After 1943 When Every Rational Hope Of Victory Had Disappeared?

You Really Struggle To Be A Successful Empire If You Are Also The World's Biggest Debtor.