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    3 months ago

    You don’t need military budget to defend yourself. Governments need military budget to gain power and attack others.

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      3 months ago

      If your country has zero weapons and my country has some weapons, what’s your plan for stopping your country becoming an extension of mine, and your culture, language and history becoming lost forever?

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        3 months ago

        Just make peace, it’s easy, just tell the invaders no, they will respect that and see the error of their ways.

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        3 months ago

        Countries are invisible lines on the map to begin with. There are many ways to defend yourself that don’t involve spending billions of pubic money into military assets such as aircarriers or stealth planes.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare

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      3 months ago

      Sorry: I’d mistaken you for a person using considered-reasoning.

      Ideology doesn’t reason.

      Its symbols are comforting substitutes for reason, & they’re enough, for it, right?

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