Parkinson’s Law of International Politics
Without being either the ones who made this law or the first to apply it after it was laid down, we applied it as one in existence when we took it up and one that we will leave behind to endure for all time, since we know that you and anyone else who attained power like ours would act accordingly.
Thucydides, 411 BCE
Thucydides was describing what two th…
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