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Originally Posted by stevo
No one interacts for purely high-minded principled reasons. Everyone is only interested in what is in it for them. No country would ever say, "go ahead and conquer us and take our resources because after all, its good for everyone else" Every country, if not every person, acts in their own best interest.
ps. i din't bother watching the short. just reading the post gave me an idea of what was in it.
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I don't think anyone here would suggest that the US has ever been in danger of invasion as you seem to be suggesting... US aggression is almost always tied to its business/trade interests.
The US is not alone in this.
That said, I would say there are a few countries that do act for "high-minded principled reasons". Canada and many of the Scandinavian countries involove themselves as third party negotiators... The reason they are ideal for this role is that they don't have the aquisitive/aggrssive (colonial?) attitudes of most of the other industiralized nations.