My idea is that every specific body strives to become
master over all space and to extend its force (--its will to
power:) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it
continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies
and ends by coming to an arrangement ("union") with those of them
that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire
together for power. And the process goes on--
from The Will to Power,
s.636, Walter Kaufmann transl.
Nietzsche talked about how victims when attacked they want to always fight back. When they fight against their oppressors and win. The victims hate their oppressors, but we don't blame them for their hatred. Its when these victims can't win they think of other ways to bet their oppressors, one of the ways is to "team up" with other victims in order to bet the oppressors. We see this happens today in the world when countries are being oppressed they seek help from other countries. All of the countries involved ultimately want power. In order to get the power the victims have to turn into the oppressors and the cycle continues.
Yes, and I think one of the ways Nietzsche is saying that the weak can "beat" the strong is by instituting silly notions of morality and ethics. For example, you mention that when countries are being oppressed by other countries, they argue that it is wrong, immoral, etc. Countries cannot just destroy each other anymore the way that they did in Greek or Roman times. Now you have to contend with issues like humanitarianism, morality, etc. Nietzsche would (I think) all of these notions are really quite silly and a reflection of how perverted our world has become.
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