Alliance, N.: In International Politics, The Union Of Two Thieves Who Have Their Hands So Deeply Inserted In Each Other's Pocket That They Cannot Separately Plunder A Third.

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Alliance, n.:
In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they
cannot separately plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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