My Gmail has a small bar at the top that shows headlines and other trivia. Occasionally it displays a "Word of the Day." Today's word:
Potemkin village | An impressive facade or display that hides an undesirable fact or state; a false front.
As in:
Unless U.S. imperial overstretch is acknowledged and corrected, the United States may someday soon find that it has become a Potemkin village superpower -- with a facade of military strength concealing a core of economic weakness.-- Christopher Layne
"Why the Gulf War Was Not in the National Interest"
The Atlantic, July 1991
If only we learned from the past.
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