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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt Attribution: Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).

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