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‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

When has a nation completely set down their weapons, and what was the effect?

You seem not to know much. It has happened often, and in very different ways.

Start your studying about Switzerland, because it is easy.

Then try to understand Afghanistan. But beware, it is already a little complicated, and you need to read about 4 - 8 decades of history, and you should not read only sources from one country (they all lie, and you need to overcome that - or stay ignorant).

Last, go for some of the African countries. They are harder to understand, the what and the why. But coincidentially :) our current topic starts there, so it may be important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well Switzerland does obsessively stay neutral, which is badass… Sadly that is mostly an anomaly in the world right now. I’d love for everyone to be the same, but I don’t think it’s likely - good luck convincing the US, Russia, or China to be neutral.

Not sure what you mean by the others. Afghanistan has been destabilized repeatedly by a bunch of big nations with big weapons, and they couldn’t do much about it. That fairly well strengthens my point again - the only nations whose rights are respected are the ones with the biggest guns, and everyone else gets trampled by them.

Heck, Africa is also embroiled in proxy wars caused in part (mostly? It’s complicated) by big, militarized nations.

I think very few people would call militarization good. In fact I’d call it explicitly evil. I would also label it as necessary in the modern world dynamic. I desperately hope that people learn to respect each other so we have the option of demilitarization.