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The world emerged from the Great War in the shadow of a mountain of debt that the victorious Allies owed to one another (the US being the only net creditor), and by the losers to the victors.
Moreover, Hezbollah and its friends present themselves as absolute victors no matter what happens.
The most important institutions – the United Nations Security Council, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – remain dominated by the European and American victors of World War II, countries that represent an increasingly small minority of the world’s population and a shrinking share of its economic output.
It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.
Rather than turning their attention to the Islamic State, the fractious victors would most likely turn on one another.
But recent history has not been kind to the victors.
Among the victors in recent elections have been people from traditionally underprivileged backgrounds who have risen through the power of the ballot to positions their forefathers could never have dreamed of.
As the victors in May cobble together a government, their challenge will be to sustain a pluralist India of competing ideas and interests, unafraid of the power or products of the outside world, and determined to liberate and fulfill its people’s creative energies.
Moreover, the post-WWII bodies were tribunals in which the war’s victors judged the losers, and those prosecuted were already in custody.
For example, though the reparations demanded by the victors of World War I were certainly burdensome, by 1932 it had become clear that they would never be paid.
In both cases, a poorly conceived campaign has caught up to the victors.
In contrast to rigged elections in which the victors are pre-determined, Iran’s system allows competitive elections among pre-selected candidates.
The US, having flouted international justice by disregarding the Geneva Conventions at Guantanamo, would make matters worse by reverting to a system in which military victors doff their uniforms and attire themselves in judicial robes.
Because Nato expansion is the most worrying option forRussians, the idea that it must come first invites not a sighthat security will be heightened, but a shudder that the long runsecurity will once more be put into doubt by too overweening areach by the victors.
Like history, social-scientific theory is written by the victors and shaped by the context and challenges of its time.
WWII's victors had to rule Germany for four years and Japan for longer.
(Were history written by the victims, not the victors, empire-building would look a lot less glorious.)
As historians know, there is great pressure to remember the past as the victors want it remembered.
Consensus-oriented negotiations can work when a treaty is being struck between victors and vanquished –ampnbsp;the strong and the weak.
Today’s multilateralism, conceived by the victors of World War II, was geared toward preventing global conflicts (through the United Nations), organizing collective defense (through NATO, and the now-defunct Warsaw Pact, for example), and supporting economic reconstruction and development (through the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank).
Still, the English-speaking victors shaped the post-war order in large parts of the world.
Politicians should be forced to answer the question US President Lyndon B. Johnson asked then-Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1968: “What kind of Israel do you want?”Instead, Israel – seemingly convinced that Palestinians will always be history’s victims and Israelis its victors – is offering only complacency.
A white woman is a victim of misogyny; but in a Trumpian world, she also belongs to a class of victors (whose dominance is demonstrated through racism and xenophobia).
Similarly, the United Nations has come to seem like a relic, favoring victors of a long-ago war, reflecting obsolete power relations, and denying a sufficient voice to countries of the global south, many of which had yet to achieve independence by the time the UN was founded in 1945.
The meeting was over, the crowd dispersed, and now that the speeches had been read, each one fell back into his place again, and everything into the old grooves; the masters bullied the servants, and these struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns.
"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and what you had best do with him is to leave him to take his chance whether he be lost or not, for the horses we shall have when we come out victors will be so many that even Rocinante will run a risk of being changed for another.
The squires made a ring round them, both victors and vanquished maintaining profound silence, waiting for the great Roque Guinart to speak.
Still, however, the necessary intercourse between the lords of the soil, and those oppressed inferior beings by whom that soil was cultivated, occasioned the gradual formation of a dialect, compounded betwixt the French and the Anglo-Saxon, in which they could render themselves mutually intelligible to each other; and from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been so happily blended together; and which has since been so richly improved by importations from the classical languages, and from those spoken by the southern nations of Europe.
The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished.
The former retreated to their pavilions, and the latter, gathering themselves up as they could, withdrew from the lists in disgrace and dejection, to agree with their victors concerning the redemption of their arms and their horses, which, according to the laws of the tournament, they had forfeited.
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