> That’s silly. There is a difference between buying material from a foreign country and being entirely reliant on another one for your survival. > I don’t min

> That’s silly. There is a difference between buying material from a foreign country and being entirely reliant on another one for your survival. > I don’t mind the fairly honest debate and disagreement we are having but there is little point in going further if you are not interested in a modicum of intellectual honesty. I feel like you are the one being intellectually dishonest. To claim someone is a protectorate because they enter into a defensive alliance for their defence is absurd and does not follow. No one is entirely reliant on NATO for survival but theres plenty of armies that wouldn't survive an insane from Russia without the extra material.