Subjugating

This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.

Today the civilized world is opening its borders for the sake of international cooperation, and only Russia is "subjugating" new lands and peoples. The largest country in the world is rushing headlong into the Middle Ages.

There are two ways of conquering and subjugating a nation. One uses violence, the other debt.