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6/24/2014 12:21:53 PM
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It's a nice idea, but the simple fact is that people are bastards.
Nationalist pride isn't going away anytime soon, Militias would grow in size until they can take over the next country and so on and so forth. The other issue is, who would prevent other countries from growing too powerful or stepping on the path to conquest/invasion?
You'd need something more powerful than them, to keep things in order.
Things aren't that bad on the world stage at the moment though, sure the Middle east is an utter cluster-blam!- and there are one or two other countries at war with each other, but there aren't any major world powers kicking seven shades of shit out of each other anymore. MAD is what's kept the peace for the last 70 years, even if countries like the USA and NATO/UN are doing their interventions in the middle east and Russia is basically trying to rebuild the USSR.
There is always going to be war, strife and conflict. The closest we will get to world peace is what we have now, when the middle east settles down that is <.<
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Hmm... A Good and realistic point [spoiler]I just wish humans were just more loving[/spoiler]
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People are bastard coated bastards with bastard fillings.
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So what you mean is that by maintaining a military you actually maintain a status quo that prevents smaller scale skirmishes to end up as war? I guess that makes sense as well.
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Pretty much, keeping a sizeable military for defence and stability is important. If organisations/treaties on the scale of things like NATO, or the concept of MAD then it would be more than likely that there would have been quite a few serious wars in Europe between nations since WW2. There have been a few, but nothing on the same scale as the world wars or even the Napoleonic wars <.< Nowadays, you aren't likely to see X country invade Y for just outright landgrabbing/gain, it will either be bullshittery like Iraq or it will end at the odd border skirmish. Instead there has been a rise in Civil Wars and internal conflicts in some of the less stable regions. We have traded one monster for another <.< This new one doesn't claim as many lives though... generally speaking.
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I don't think they can settle down.
