When you think about it the idea that the "West"—the geographical/political zone that gave us Napoleon, Leopold II, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini—is somehow less given to autocratic, militarist, or personalist excesses than a country to its east requires a wild leap of faith
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Which isn’t too different from the bias in personal life that my actions indicate my mental state at the time, while others’ actions indicate their deep personality traits
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In politics, it's more like "Oh, no, we just keep stumbling into one war of aggression after another, but our intentions are good! But their actions show their innate Evil."
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