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Your just using the word alliance to define your reality. Think about it. It's the other way around. Reality is not defined by the word alliance, clearly there

Your just using the word alliance to define your reality. Think about it. It's the other way around. Reality is not defined by the word alliance, clearly there exists a gradient of countries who are more friendly than others. Stick with the intention of the word by the person using it not the absolutist pedantic definition.

pphysch 3y ago
Hate to break it to you, but modern IR is based in the legal tradition and as such ascribes precise meaning to words. It is pedantic by necessity.
- corethree 3y ago
  This isn't a legal court. There is no necessity in the context of this thread.