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Kasz216 on 30 November 2010
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Soleron said:
Vertigo-X said:
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That's incredibly naive! We're not magically in the era of non-violence... If our armed forces were to disband tomorrow, there would be utter chaos!


No power would risk economic instability by an armed invasion of another, just like with nukes now. Violence in less developed countries would continue the same. Terrorism would continue the same; intelligence didn't help much to mitigate it and the amount of resources spent combating it produced a tiny effect compared to spending that money on road safety or stopping smoking.

Each country would keep a small militia (National Guard like) for civil issues and natural disasters, but they wouldn't operate abroad.

And we'd save a ton of money. All the defence companies could go too.

The major difference would be that we'd probably lose the Falkland Islands to Argentina, and Afghanistan would go back to being lawless. I think it's worth it.


And Russia would rexpand back to the USSR era levels.

China would conquer Taiwan.

Israel would forcibly deport the Palestinians and claim all of the Israel/Palestine area.

Smaller countries in general led by despots would likely see the "smaller" world as "fair game" and carve out their own empires that would rival the industrilized nations in size.