But State had dived into the Commonwealth paddling pool without asking DHS for a sanity check. Indeed, State seemed to think the Commonwealth were some kind of yokels, like one of the central Asian ’stans, and had been gaslighting the Commonwealth Guard rather than taking Dr. Scranton’s more cautious approach of trying to induce the DPR to discredit themselves. The memories of the long face-off with the Soviet Union had faded from institutional memory over the last quarter of a century, leaving the State Department suffering from delusions of imperial omnipotence It was bound to get them
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