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The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge, still growing military establishment that undergirds it. It is a task at least comparable to that undertaken by the British government when, after World War II, it liquidated the British Empire. By doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic – becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by force.

http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=11800

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Есть мнение, что если бы не деколонизация, Британская империя повторила судьбу Римской республики - потеряла бы свою демократию и выродилась бы в тиранию в попытке контролировать военной силой большую часть мира.

Я думаю в МЦМ именно это ей и предстоит