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Alliance: In international politics, ...
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Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
Law and Politics and
War and Peace
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