The trick used by Bonaparte III, the equivalent of the neocons today, was to exercise the right to intervene (aka regime change) in the domestic affairs of other countries. Napoleon III did so in a way opposite to the way Metternich had intended it; namely, in the name of a new principle of “international solidarity,” or mutual solidarity among nationalist and democratic states bent on freeing one another from the yoke of alleged traditional tyrannies.
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