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I suspect it might be a bit like the saying concerning the Saudi Arabians. "They get less likeable the closer they are to Saudi Arabia." Before you ask, that was in an unofficial State Department briefing issued to American women who were considering marrying Saudi men.

Now that would be a good subject for a PhD thesis . . .. The problem is that however pleasant people are as individuals, when they are assembled into groups, they begin to exhibit the worst common characteristics of those groups. The larger the group, the more pronounced that is. In some...

IIRC the only actual evidence is that Colonel Henry Bouquet wrote a letter proposing the idea. His commander, Amherst, verbally approved the idea but whether it actually went ahead or not is hypothetical. There's no evidence one way or another. Oddly, the Indians may actually have brought the...

It makes more sense if one remembers the basic Russian precept that their allies will always betray them eventually. It's "when" not "if". So, its not quite as unreasonable as it sounds; infiltrating and undermining would be the first stage of that inevitable betrayal. One of the places I...