As JFK alluded to in his Inaugural Speech, 騎虎難下.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/kennedy.asp
> "We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
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