... not make any outlandish predictions about what direction America or Soviet Russia is going. Instead, Kennan takes more of a theoretical approach to the Russian future and uses a Henry David Thoreau quote to illustrate his idea. "There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it if the light we use is ... ...

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