[AppleAtCha]

So much of the past decade has been the internet infecting the population with 19th century thinking like this. Alliances are a thing, and might makes right is something we have told ourselves for generations that we oppose. I am so tired of this nihilism dressed as edge.

[solenoid0937]

This isn't "nihilism dressed as edge," this is political realism, and it is the framework under which our rivals operate wrt international relations.

Yes, alliances are a thing, and the framework fully accounts for these.