The founding fathers tie property qualifications to voting, thinking that a power belongs to them.
It is the simple answer that someone could demonstrate as an excuse of power and more qualifications be given.
This is what they expected; the unique factor of political, social and economic qualifications to be taken and belong to them with a persistent dominated way against the minorities.
They were satisfied with the land they conquered because that meant they could expand their army, have the advantages others did not have they wanted to be the biggest empire.
Basically the comic artist was trying to say Washington is and won't ever be sane again, so henry will die. That's why the two women in the doorway and the dog look worried.
Mainly the Soviet Union backed the Viet Minh otherwise known as the North Vietnamese as the USSR backed many communist/socialist countries around the world in small proxy wars against the United States to try and gain influence and expand communism. So your answer would be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.