'An alliance is an alliance' is a tautology, not a definition of an alliance.https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/939886482180984840 …
That's a deliberate rhetorical flourish. But if you want a definition, I'd go with an alliance is a voluntary association for mutual benefit.
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Formal (military) alliance more than infrequently understood to involve treaty with unflourished specifications and indications mutually understood between/among beneficiaries.
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And one thing they do not include is "pay us more or you're on your own."
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