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    2 months ago

    Depends on where you draw the line of “sovereign”. You can’t really have, for example, an independent military in any reasonable way if you’re, idk, Belgium. But there is a sliding scale. The US, for example, is in theory just a highly integrated collection of loose states.

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        2 months ago

        Well, there’s NATO, but there’s also the 414 Panzerbataillon/Tankbataljon. As I said, sliding scale.