> huge risk to rely on any other country though, friends today may become enemies tomorrow. Real life isn't some RTS game. If a flip like that happens, it won

> huge risk to rely on any other country though, friends today may become enemies tomorrow. Real life isn't some RTS game. If a flip like that happens, it won't happen very quickly. Also autarky isn't even possible for most countries, and is probably a weakness for most of those that could pull it off. > Have we already forgotten that US dropped atomic weapons on Japan yet are now fast allies... That's an example of an enemy becoming an ally, so not exactly relevant. > or that US supported the Islamic fundamentalism in Afganistan before now becoming enemies. US + Saddam bosom buddies in the Iran vs Iraq war. Those are allies of geopolitical necessity, not "ideologically-aligned natural allies." For the latter, I'm thinking of things like NATO (maybe sans a couple of members) and "the Anglosphere."