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The problem facing all humans is the fact that we have unlimited wants but we don't and can never have enough resources to satisfy these wants. This leads us to making choices thus making an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the cost of the forgone alternative
Yes, it is true that North Korea has been actively developing and testing nuclear arms for the last decade, since most of their facilities and tests are easily traceable.
1000 MI. Long from Chang'an to Dunhuang
In George Washington's words "A pasionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils".
With this statement, as well as a many others in his famous Farewell Address, what Washington was mainly trying to warn the American people about is that becoming fanatical of any political party or overly-obsessive about geographical divisions would always set-up injustice. The privilege of any Nation always comes at the expense of others when sympathy grows into an illusion of "an imaginary common interest". Also of much importance, alliances must be chosen wisely as to not end up betraying the interests of our own Nation in order to defend these alliances. When they're formed without good justification, we end up wrongly following blind and passionate attachment instead of reason.
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