This passage is taken from an eighteenth-century letter from a president to the citizens of the United States of America.

This passage is taken from an eighteenth-century letter from a president to the citizens of the United States of America.
What is the relationship between paragraphs four and five in the excerpt?
Paragraph four describes a friendly alliance with Europe while paragraph five provides a contrasting description of a negative foreign alliance.
Paragraph four provides an example of a foreign entanglement, and paragraph five illuminates what can be gained by avoiding those entanglements.
Paragraph four establishes what the president calls a “rule of conduct,” and paragraph five provides an example of what happens when that rule is not followed.
Paragraph four illuminates the drawbacks of foreign alliances while paragraph five explores what will be gained by aligning the country with other countries.