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Well, then you better hope that your country does invest in defense and force projection, so other countries don’t think it will be easy to attack it.
No defense budget -> higher chance of being attacked -> you will get drafted and probably have to fight with pitchforks, because no army.
Defense budget -> Force projection -> attacking your country is a higher risk -> you have an army that has the resources to defend the country, so no need to draft civilians if it happens (at least from the start, but the chance is drastically lower).
It’s not that difficult to understand, unless you’re deep into Putin’s ass spreading his bullshit propaganda about “defense bad”.
Countries don’t exist in vacuums. A big part of geopolitics is figuring out how to manage not getting attacked while being able to build up things other than war machines. For instance, if you have allies you trust, your COMBINED force projection would need to be enough to prevent attacks, leaving each with more room to focus on their economies. If you want to be completely isolated, sure, you have to be able to individually defend yourself, but we live in a world where we really CAN’T be completely isolated, so it only makes sense to try to work together.
Well, then you better hope that your country does invest in defense and force projection, so other countries don’t think it will be easy to attack it.
No defense budget -> higher chance of being attacked -> you will get drafted and probably have to fight with pitchforks, because no army.
Defense budget -> Force projection -> attacking your country is a higher risk -> you have an army that has the resources to defend the country, so no need to draft civilians if it happens (at least from the start, but the chance is drastically lower).
It’s not that difficult to understand, unless you’re deep into Putin’s ass spreading his bullshit propaganda about “defense bad”.
Countries don’t exist in vacuums. A big part of geopolitics is figuring out how to manage not getting attacked while being able to build up things other than war machines. For instance, if you have allies you trust, your COMBINED force projection would need to be enough to prevent attacks, leaving each with more room to focus on their economies. If you want to be completely isolated, sure, you have to be able to individually defend yourself, but we live in a world where we really CAN’T be completely isolated, so it only makes sense to try to work together.