I disagree on your assessment of both nations, and am pretty doomy about concentration of power.
I think how a nation with a decisive strategic advantage treats the rest of the world has more to do with its decisive strategic advantage and its needs, and less to do with its flag, or even history.
Anyway, my main point was structural: if panel 2 depends on holding very particular views regarding panel 1, the parallelism is lost and it hurts the joke.
I disagree on your assessment of both nations, and am pretty doomy about concentration of power.
I think how a nation with a decisive strategic advantage treats the rest of the world has more to do with its decisive strategic advantage and its needs, and less to do with its flag, or even history.
Anyway, my main point was structural: if panel 2 depends on holding very particular views regarding panel 1, the parallelism is lost and it hurts the joke.
Thanks for the response!