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Kate Zizys – The Policy of Blood and Iron, A Commonwealth Directive

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Etching
Edition of 30
Image size: 32 x 24.5 cm
Paper size: 57 x 38 cm
Printed by the artist
PCA Print Commission 2010

A Blood and Iron policy refers to any foreign policy that uses war tactics as its instrument. It remains the preferred policy of all expansionist Western nations. Whenever a contemporary nation votes and whatever party is voted for, an active policy of Blood and Iron is maintained. History is contemporary: give us new ideas; the old policies are brutal and crude.

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