Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes

Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes by _Tev on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:58AM (#15392823)

How will they contribute to NATO then? Your point was that they don't need political alliance to be in a military one, my point is that this is practically impossible.

Also good luck with making an army from nothing just in time before invasion.

Edit: and you are still ignoring weakness of such states on economic level.

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Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes by monort on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:41PM (#15394332)

History shows it was possible in cantons of Switzerland, Habsburgs couldn't conquer them, despite no federal authority. There are still examples of small countries in military alliances today - I don't see what is the problem with contributing.

Economics is not a problem in a modern world with a free trade. Small city-states, that embrace free trade, fare well. There is even an possibility, that trade liberalization leads to political disintegration: https://www.nber.org/papers/w6163

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Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes by _Tev on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:19PM (#15397047)

Imo Switzerland is poor example and free trade cannot be guaranteed for small states in today's world but I guess we will not convince each other in this limited debate . .. Let's agree to disagree.

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