[quote=So Boerd] 1. Alaskan oil?2. Then you have the coordination problem. Thousands of little states with thousands of militaries.3. Free rider problem. If there are 10,000 cities, each state will try and minimize its military spending and let others do the fighting.Honestly, if you seriously think 1000s if little states could take on Russia, you're proving just how out of your depth you are. [/quote] > Propose a thousand tiny armies for a thousand tiny nations > All those thousand tiny nations supposed to reduce their military budget and rely on others to fight for them. > All of the sudden through 11/10 coordination no one has an army because it's assumed their neighbor will handle it for them. [url=http://youtu.be/zgKazTrhXmI?list=RDzgKazTrhXmI]RUSSIYA!!! URA![/url] And when everyone EUs and the one crutch decides to cut back... Well you can ask Ukraine how it feels for Putin to borrow chunks of it. [img]http://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/451256444.jpg?w=1024[/img]