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Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the same qualities that drive them to build empires make them lousy to write about.
In an analysis of Blair's "new internationalism" on its editorial page, Le Monde of Paris described it Friday as "a kind of humanitarian Wilsonism that wouldn't be limited to the right of peoples to self-determination that Woodrow Wilson wanted to impose on the defeated European empires after World War I ; it defends the rights of man, the rights of minorities, and cultural and religious freedoms."
Anyone could have told you about the epic corruption--about tycoons whose empires depended on their political connections and about politicians growing rich in ways best not discussed.
The two empires agreed to divide the island, with the Portuguese ruling the eastern half and the Dutch the western.