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kodyo
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The empire has vassals, not allies.
amarcheschi
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The empire is doing everything it can to alienate its vassals into indipendent cities-states with their own alliances
dmitrygr
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Vassals who refuse to bend the knee tend to ... not live long. Often replaced by those who bend it properly.
estearum
32 days ago
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Sounds like a cartoon world.
estearum
32 days ago
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Realpolitik dictates that you don't start conflicts with all of your vassals for literally no reason
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FpUser
32 days ago
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You nailed it
markus_zhang
32 days ago
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Good point but not popular here.
Starman_Jones
32 days ago
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It's old thinking that has been proven wrong multiple times... by America.
markus_zhang
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I think America is proving that?
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