If you give a organization a budget or means to get a budget without any real regulating force, wouldn't it inevitably reach the Thucydides trap?
Like has the CIA's budget ever actually decreased in real terms? Or to my knowledge no army ever declined without its country also declining in social or economic means, only comparitavely.
It just seems silly desu, why don't people build armed insurance firms instead to fill the same purpose? They have market forces regulating them.
>What if they take over
Then we have an army or Alphabet agency. Besides countermeasures like unlimited militias, the lose state would be the status quo

>>17867985 (OP)
>the trap doesn't apply because it's the heckin' market known for self regulation
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>>17867991
Yes? Yes it is?