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GDP is the wrong metric. Military strength and sustainability are the most important drivers for a country. Example: This is why North Korea is able to survive
by orangepurple 3y ago
GDP is the wrong metric. Military strength and sustainability are the most important drivers for a country. Example: This is why North Korea is able to survive despite being blacklisted economically from most of the world. China is enabling its sustainability.
- deaddodo 3y agoThere is no wrong or right metric. Every aspect of a nation's existence has an effect on its survival. Mexico has a very weak and self-defense oriented military, but is under no threat of occupation or annexation. Mostly because it's continued existence benefits both the US and Canada, which offer a proxy protection. It also keeps relatively good trade relations with many powerful nations and has a large consumer economy. Or Mongolia, which exists because neither of it's neighbors could reasonably occupy it or would allow the other to do so. Military strength is one way to ensure protection. It's certainly not the only way.
- orangepurple 3y agoMexico's military is unable to control at least 30% of its territory and there is discussion of an American "special military operation" to destroy cartels.
- deaddodo 3y agoAnd yet they're still sovereign. You're only reinforcing the point with your flights of fancy, not countering it.