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		_heimdall 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nowhere is safe Pacifism at such a large scale is a self-defesting strategy though. If its well understood that a country will never respond, eventually someone will take them over or wipe them out.

AlecSchueler 18 days ago [–]

Responding to a threat and meddling proactively half the world away are quite different things, are they not?

_heimdall 18 days ago | [–]

For sure, and I wasn't arguing that they are the same.

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