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I'd be glad if NATO didn't exist.
It would mean countries wouldn't feel threatened by their neighbors, and no invasions would happen.
But until that is the case, NATO is necessary.
Every species has weapons embedded into its body, some organisms are specialized members of the species, such as queens and babies, but all species spend a portion of their precious energy budget building weapons.
Given how ruthlessly evolution prunes out anything that doesn’t give an advantage, I think this gives significant information about the nature of existence.
Hostility appears to be as universal as entropy, and just as manageable.
Fun fact. Being the most complex object in the known universe. The human brain is the lowest entropy place we know..
The most complex object in the universe ... according to the brain.