It is a shocking situation to live in, that one country must be brought into all the wars of another, whether the measure be right or wrong, or whether she will or not; yet this, in the fullest extent, was, and ever would be, the unavoidable consequence of the connection.
Paine argues that being connected to Britain inevitably dragged the colonies into European wars, regardless of their own interests or will.
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