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30/03/24

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Originally posted by Infose: ↑

"The point is if we owned and controlled all our assets we would be rich enough to have a proper world class defense force".

A small and open country cannot expect to defend itself alone. " A defense pact (Commonwealth spelling: defence pact) is a type of treaty or military alliance in which the signatories promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other.[1] Generally, the signatories point out the threats and concretely prepare to respond to it together:

Some examples are ANZUS and NATO. In some countries what foreigners own is balanced by what locals own abroad.

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Gee, I wonder how all the Southeast Asian states remained independent for thousands of years with no alliances.
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