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What I’ve come to understand by studying history is that countries without a superior military get subjugated by countries that have one. You can either play th
by rand_r 9y ago
What I’ve come to understand by studying history is that countries without a superior military get subjugated by countries that have one. You can either play the game or lose without putting up a fight.
- ergothus 9y agoAnd yet, raising an army to be defensive just makes your neighbors arm faster to try prevent THEIR demise. I suspect the details end up having a lot more nuance than one or two sentences can describe.
- andromeduck 9y agoI mean diplomacy helps too but nobody is going to listen if you don't have a stick to back it up with. See Ukraine for example.
- zaphirplane 9y agoif True we would have 1 global empire.