• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Which tbh was really short sighted as well. Every nation needs an army to hold onto their self determination. And it needs to be well funded. Such has been proved repeatedly throughout history

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      5 days ago

      it’s a classic anarchism vs centralization struggle, happens a lot in federations historically. Sometimes you do need everyone to stop slacking off and fight off the invaders.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Not at all? This is nonsense. The very concept of a standing professional military has been exceedingly rare throughout history and was so during the Revolutionary period as well.