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Originally Posted by Sly
Yes. I am an arrogant American, but you know I'm right. ;-)
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Here's how it works. Your friend needs money. He's in trouble. He asks you for money. He borrows the money. Then it's time to pay it back. He can't. He starts dodging your phone calls, has excuses, avoids you and the final move is always the same... He convinces himself that you're a dick head and you don't deserve to be paid back and no debt exists. Then, anytime your name comes up, he tells everyone what a cocksucker you are.
It's usually ones own sense of shame causin him to act out in this respect.
France for example, has been shamed by most nations militarily, hence they're a bunch of twats. Even in their occupation of Vietnam and in what could be described as ome of the greatest displays pf military ineptitude, their final move was to position the bulk of their troops in a valley, fully exposed to and surrounded by 4000+ Vietnamese troops hiding in their massive tunnel complexes in the surrounding hills. They either have to believe everyone else is a fucktard, or that they themselves are. Much easier and certainly gentler on the ego, to point the finger outward, than inward.
Giving away food, money, medicine and military support more often than not, produces resentment, as it reminds all nations of exactly who and what they are, where they stand in the global pecking order and of their debt to and/or their reliance on others. That is why Iran makes a fake offer of assistance to the US which is refused each time when there is a disaster and why the US makes a fake offer of assistance to Iran which is refused each time they have a disaster.