¶ Detente
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Detente:
“John Paul Jones continually engaged battleship of the US revolutionary times cost less than $100, A modern aircraft carrier costs some 30,000 times that amount, i.e., $3 billion; and it becomes obsolete before being used for anything except a lethal ‘threat’ in the world’s political-balance-of-power poker game known for the moment as ‘detente.’”
