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But I put Spain out of the question: she is a province of the Jacobin empire, and she must make peace or war according to the orders she receives from the Directory of Assassins.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques Spain's subservience to revolutionary France, portraying it as a victim of external control.
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