Operationally explain how you can have sovereignty when you are a tiny country w

Operationally explain how you can have sovereignty when you are a tiny country without any capacity to produce that sovereignty, and there are plenty of others surrounding you that can easily deprive you of it.

How can you have sovereignty of yourself within a polity if you have no capacity to produce it yourself, when there are many others who could easily deprive you of it.

There is no ideology or philosophy or preference here. It is merely one of whether it is more advantagous to form alliances despite the spectrum of costs, or to become the victim of the alliances of others willing to pay the cost of depriving you of it.

Didn’t your experience with the soviets teach you anything? How to lose seventy years of development?

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