@AutistocratMS Thinking. Is the difference between safe naval states and unsafe

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Thinking.
Is the difference between safe naval states and unsafe continental states reducible to the power distribution between the population, small groups, economic alliances, and the state – in other words what lever of ‘power’ can be exercised? At one end you have defense of the commons at the other the seizure of internal but especially external opportunity.