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[rand_r]

What I’ve come to understand by studying history is that countries without a superior military get subjugated by countries that have one. You can either play the game or lose without putting up a fight.

[ergothus → rand_r]

And yet, raising an army to be defensive just makes your neighbors arm faster to try prevent THEIR demise.

I suspect the details end up having a lot more nuance than one or two sentences can describe.

[andromeduck → ergothus]

I mean diplomacy helps too but nobody is going to listen if you don't have a stick to back it up with. See Ukraine for example.

[zaphirplane → rand_r]

if True we would have 1 global empire.