During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
It challenges that most basic of principles of our international system - that borders cannot be redrawn at the barrel of a gun, that nations have the right to determine their own future.
Anything you initially gained from the instant satisfaction of telling it like it is, you might lose down the track by injuring your future career prospects.