• rbits@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    They don’t “protect” you from anything but other armies

    Yes, but other armies do exist. And that will always be the case. There’s no way to convince everyone to not have an army, especially because someone would have to be first and no one would want to do that because then they are defenseless.

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      9 months ago

      We don’t have to remove all army overnight, and we have a body to discuss demilitarization efforts - the United Nations. Moreover, military alliances should be reformed to include everyone who signed up for demilitarization in order to have enough collective power to defend from others and enforce compliance.

      With enough political will - will that should come from the bottom up, from us - we can push governments to discuss that. But instead a lot of people just get into that “inevitability” trope and do nothing to stop the meat grinder - especially in countries like the US or Russia or Israel or other corrupt forces.