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To destroy every existing country from Egypt to Pakistan, replacing them with a one-man-rule empire? And killing a large number of people to get there? And leaving behind a number of feuding generals when he dies, who create their own one-man-rule sub-empires?

No thanks. What we have now isn't great, but I'm not sure that's an improvement.




Ironically, the United State's foreign policy is pretty similar to that, if the nations weren't conquered, they're controlled via friendly proxies.


It’s not even remotely close to what Alexander did, almost the complete opposite in every conceivable way.




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