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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by TacticalCoder on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:45PM (#27606594)
Well sure but then it relies on the US army. Costa Rica is allied with the US and foolish would be the country trying to declare war to Costa Rica because it'd very probably face the full wrath of Uncle Sam's army.

I'm not saying setting up an alliance with the country that has the biggest army in the world and then doing without an army is a bad thing...

What I'm saying though is that it'd probably be very different for a country without any alliance with the US to decide to have no army.

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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by estebarb on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:00PM (#27606814)
Technically it relies on the TIAR (interamerican treaty of reciprocal defense).

Edit: fixed acronym. Thanks

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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by jccooper on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:18PM (#27608031)
TIAR. ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
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