States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.
国家本质上是侵略性和扩张主义的，因为它们存在于一个无政府状态的国际体系中，没有更高的权威来约束它们。
"The stage is where the dead speak to the living."
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