• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    After the 20th Century it became clear that war could spread anywhere at any moment and destroy vast swaths of people and nature indiscriminately.

    The world had no choice but to ally with really big baskets. The USA was the most obvious choice given their lack of hostile landgrabs unlike China and Russia.

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      3 months ago

      Lack of hostile land grabs? West of the Mississippi, Texas, Hawaii and the Philippines would beg to differ.