That’s a hot mess 🤦♂️
I was referring more to the USA which has an immense defense industrial complex
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And that would not have been possible if the modern state was not invented after the 30 years war.
You do have the militia option to keep centralized power in check, but since it was not used earlier on now is probably too late…
Probably so. A Balkanized US would not be a good thing tbh
That IS the problem with Westphalia, it was done to stop balkanization but instead led to where we are now via the modern, fully centralized state…
The roots of the 30 years war might be where to look for what worked until that point, I bet that was not modern arms and so on only