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Tell me again how welfare isn't being abused. (Denmark data)

People sitting on their butts would be a neutral position, economically. The Military is a negative one. Welfare would be somebody being payed to be a purchaser who doesn't produce. The Military is somebody payed to do damage, and then not produce.

Wrong. The military does a whole lot of work to protect commerce through the gulf of Aden. The military being so much ahead of all peers prevents actual conventional wars which are the most economically damaging of all wars. Taiwan isn't a smouldering pile of ash, thank the US navy in the Taiwan Strait crisis.

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Sheet is done.

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The military is just a better version of welfare. You both pay poor people, but with welfare you pay them to sit on their butts where the military gives them great job skills. Don't tell me the military wastes money if you love a Eurowelfare state.

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Okay, I'll be honest, I want a world where no country has an army

So do I, but there are people like Putin.

Also, @nukes, why would the Republic of Minot commit nuclear suicide for the sake of a few oil wells?

What is your issue with a very weak federal government whose only job essentially is national defense?

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Oh. Peace keeper, I still have my home islands and that island off my colony. That was just my colony map. Sorry. Should have been clearer.

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I will edit my sheet and finalize it now my territory is settled.

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And, who gets control of the US nukes? The republic of Minot?

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Dinh AaronMk said
> 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.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.

And the EU is composed of real countries. Why would the Republic of Lisbon or the Republic of Chicago spend a dime to stop Russia taking over the microstate of Riga?

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Darcs said
But there is a UN? and thousands of other micro-democracies possibly allied whose best interest might be to fend off Russia?What would even be Putin's strategic reasoning in directly taking on the west?

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.

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