I know you've thought about this and have your reasons. But from my POV this is a matter of our security.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @BrowningMachine
NATO is a geopolitical security welfare system. It's no more sustainable than the domestic version.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @BrowningMachine
I don't see that at all. (Maybe the Turks, but there are other obvious problems there.) ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @BrowningMachine
... It's a system for outsourcing national security to the US military, at zero-cost. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @BrowningMachine
At the cost of... protecting our own hegemony. Like a Roman client or British protectorate
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Replying to @Outsideness @BrowningMachine
Any arrangement which infantilizes your partners comes to grief.
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Replying to @Outsideness @BrowningMachine
On the contrary, the Roman and British systems failed because they dismantled them.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @BrowningMachine
The Roman collapse was slow and complicated. The British case is far easier to grasp quickly. ...
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... The UK metropolis was deprived of the advantages of (non-democratic) colonial government, and imploded.
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