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OG_ninnyhammer t1_j20epl7 wrote

Can we see the paired map of countries protected militarily by the US, please?

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BigBayesian t1_j23jpl8 wrote

That sounds incredibly complicated (like, literally a sizable fraction of the complexity of all US foreign policy), and really divisive (I.e. would all NATO countries count? Would Ukraine? India? Pakistan? Saudi Arabia? Israel? Taiwan?). You can make really good arguments that the answer for any of those is “yes” or “no”. For that reason, I think such an illustration would be difficult to construct, and impossible to treat as data without an agenda.

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