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Far from all being enemies, I see a strong continuity between the West, Islam and Communism: whatever their important differences, all three of them are based on messianic and universalist ideas where they claim to hold the Absolute Truth to which all must submit. Thus it is no accident that most recent Empires have been one of the above. (Contrast that with pre-Communist China: however ruthless it may have been within its own borders, by and large it left the rest of the world alone, and its belief in non-interference IMHO motivates much of its foreign policy and behaviour even today).
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