Wait a gosh darn minute, occupation of territories by armed forces used to cost money?! It would lead to a drain on the treasury?! Blasphemy, this must be from a work of fiction…

Nope, it is a forgotten fact from a bygone era where to mobilize armies was a carefully thought out action as the financial implications must be carefully weighed with the possible reward.

Fix the money, fix the world.

“But in maintaining armed men there in place of colonies one spends much more, having to consume on the garrison all the income from the state, so that the acquisition turns into a loss, and many more are exasperated, because the whole state is injured;”

Excerpt From

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

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