> they can only truly be stopped by force. It’s been my lifetime hope that there is another way through obsolescence and irrelevance. If a people have a self-s

> they can only truly be stopped by force. It’s been my lifetime hope that there is another way through obsolescence and irrelevance. If a people have a self-sovereign mechanism for self-defense and economic participation, then the cost of conquering them is far greater than the extractable value.