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by JumpCrisscross 587 days ago
> "buffers" are two massive oceans, those are not going anywhere for the next million years

There are also nukes. Nobody is invading America any time soon. But losing that security space means conceding a massive chunk of our GDP and, with it, autonomy and quality of life. At the very least, the system of government that oversaw that failure would be replaced.