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teo's avatar

beautiful alice! thank you

sithkhan's avatar

I think after the actions of the UK, Spain, and others in the past week, that NATO is going to have a very different look within the next five years. Thank you for putting your thoughts down for us to consider.

Frank Lantz's avatar

I keep waiting for you to mention wéiqí but it never happens and I'm ok with that.

Latinism's avatar

This comment just reminded me how happy I am to see it not mentioned. So overdone.

Frank Lantz's avatar

yeah me too. totally. that’s what I meant too.

Synthetic Civilization's avatar

The order survives not because rules are real in themselves, but because enough power remains willing to inhabit the fiction. Once the guarantor treats law as optional, the system does not disappear at once; it hollowes out first, becoming procedural theater over a shifting enforcement map.