 Mearsheimer describes a similar strategy which he calls "bloodletting", which does not involve incitement or baiting by a third party.When a state's rivals have already gone to war independently, the aim is to encourage the conflict to continue as long as possible to let the rival states weaken or "bleed" each other's military strength while the bloodletting party stays out of the fighting.This strategy is exemplified in US Senator Harry Truman's statement in 1941 regarding the invasion of Nazi-Germany and its Allies, Italy, Hungary, Finland, Romania of Russia, "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances."