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      8 months ago

      There’s a military solution to every disagreement.

      They’re seldom good ideas though.

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          8 months ago

          I agree with that, it’s also not practical even if it was a solution.

          Subjugation, however, has proved historically to be a great solution (even if temporary) to geopolitical disagreements. See: literally every war where the winners got what they wanted. WwIi, us civil war, the entirety of Mongolian history, Chinese history, wars against American Indians, Spanish conquest of South America, Ireland(sorry), etc. doesn’t always work, see Afghanistan, lots of Africa, the Incan empire’s pre-Colombian collapse, same for the Romans (well, after it worked for both), etc. but it CAN work.