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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everybody needs their own army. Otherwise they are too dependent on those who have, and that's not just the USA, that includes also plenty of vermin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we disband alliances and rely on individual armies, you'll very quickly see that we're back to the middleages, where the smaller countries are eaten by bigger countries ad infinitum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's not what I said, first. Second, smaller countries are eaten when the alliances they rely on turn out to be all puff.