>Europe threatening the USI don't want to be 'allied' with muslim countries anyways.>threatening to steal US military basesFAFO
>>526344163Cao Cao won
>>526344540Liu Bei won, Mengde's empire fell the day after he died and the Han have ruled China ever since. That's why there are monuments of Liu Bei and Guan Yu all over China. Cao Cao had no friends.
>>526344163Cao Cao (Mengde) literally followed Sun Tzu by the book, and destroyed all relations to prop up what he built in the process. There are limits on what you can do with unlimited power. Communism seeked to destroy everyone that could challenge their rule, but so has every regime in history. You can't rule through Machavellian tactics forever, but you can for long enough. Eventually the chickens come home to roost and they are angry. They are brainless but they have talons.