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* Can often happen in geopolitical situations as well. See, for example, the U.S. supporting mujaheddin in Afghanistan.
* A reason a great many people in many nations supported Nazi Germany was because they wanted to build it up to oppose the U.S.S.R.
** The best example that comes to mind if Finland. The Soviets were looking over the border and licking their lips, and soon enough invaded. The
** It also applies later in [[World War Two]] when the Nazis showed their true colors and the US and Britain backed Stalin against Hitler.
* The Aztec and Incan empires were so brutal to the peoples they ruled that many of the lesser Indian nations were more than willing to join the conquistadores in conquering those empires.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM A very popular video] shows some lions attacking a wildebeest calf near a watering hole. The struggles of the calf in the water attract a crocodile, which tries to fight the lions for their prey and gives the calf a chance to escape. However, the crocodile loses and the lions are about to set upon the calf. Then the entire wildebeest herd masses on them...
* When Kuwait was invaded by Iraq and completely overwhelmed, it resorted to asking the United States to push Iraq out knowing America had interests in it. This mostly worked as intended, with America and its coalition allies [[Curb Stomp Battle|beating Iraq easily]] despite initial fears, though Iraq getting desperate during the coalition air campaign pummeling for weeks sadly resulted in them dumping a large amount of Kuwait's oil into the sea and setting its oil wells on fire in a desperate attempt to force the coalition to attack.
* At the Battle of Jutland action was opened with the two advance battle cruiser forces engaging. Then the Germans made a fighting retreat southward(called in legend the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Run to the South]]. The the British ran into the German battlefleet and turned and made-what else-the Run to the North until they met their own battleships. Whereupon the summoning of bigger fish came to an end and they just hammered at each other.
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