Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
@tellos: that's just realpolitik basically? I'm suggesting that sometimes countries should act against selfish interests and act on behalf of other people in the world (and not just through economics). So need and requirement and self defense don't come into it.
Yes fine, and I agree: sometimes countries should show that they, collectively, got something of a “soul” as well as a wallet or a gun.

But a large army doesn't come into it.