there will be beligerent nations, and pacifist nations will get rolled by them unless they've got a strong ally to bail them out. Over here in europe we have t

there will be beligerent nations, and pacifist nations will get rolled by them unless they've got a strong ally to bail them out. Over here in europe we have that ally, it's called NATO. And despite all its flaws it seems like a more reasonable approach, rather than encouraging individual nations to build nationalistic regimes (all the way down to the "standard messages") in order to protect against potentially "beligerent" neighbours.