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submitted 3 days ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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No examples from me, just curious.

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[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 points 3 days ago (9 children)

The necessity for an army.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 14 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I see this opinion a lot. Sincere question, how are countries without armies supposed to defend themselves from imperialism?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pretty simple actually.
Just make sure you don't have any resource worth anything in the international market.

Let stuff like petroleum, Lithium, Uranium and other such thingies be sold to the first bidder.
Have your soil be nuclear contaminated, down to the bedrock, so nobody wants your land.

Have a population that looks as ugly as possible, so noone will want to rape your people.

Hey, I said it'd be simple, not that it would be easy or even humanly possible.

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