{"id":355,"date":"2005-07-03T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T07:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/07\/03\/sunday-question-is-your-enemys-enemy-your-friend\/"},"modified":"2005-07-03T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T14:37:36","slug":"sunday-question-is-your-enemys-enemy-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200507\/sunday-question-is-your-enemys-enemy-your-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday question &#8211; Is your enemy&#8217;s enemy your friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This scenario played out during World War II. Country A was under the colonial rule of Country B. Country B was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from C,  B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader of this struggle was Person D. So when C drove B out of A, D welcomed C as its deliverer and joined his forces with C&#8217;s armies. But C treated A so badly that within a couple of years, D switched sides and allied himself with B once again. The country got its freedom a few years after WWII. <\/p>\n<p>Identify  A, B, C and D.   I have put a &#8220;hint&#8221; after this line. Though I call it a hint, I think that &#8220;giveaway&#8221; would be more accurate. So my request to readers is, if you guess this <i>after <\/i> reading the hint, don&#8217;t put in your guess in the comments. Otherwise, please do.  Also, I think that this question is difficult to google. So googling is allowed. If you do google, please mention that in the comments. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">_______________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nNow, I think that if more people knew about this story in some other country (let&#8217;s call it E) citizens of that country would stop glorifying one of their leaders (F), because E came very close to being in the same situation as <strike>B<\/strike>  A (Corrected  after CoM pointed out), in part, thanks to the efforts of F<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This scenario played out during World War II. Country A was under the colonial rule of Country B. Country B was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from C, B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}