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  At least 2 rival legal Jurisdictions/Alliances/Spheres
  At least 2 rival state intelligence Agencies per Sphere
  At least 2 rival corporations per Sphere
  TOTAL: 2*(2+2) = 8
Widely used OSS projects are contested spheres of collaboration.



So the long game is rival countries are secretly collaborating, so we secretly have world peace!


Imagine all war stops and noone knows it


Nah uh! We are still warring! Israel winks at Gaza, Iran squeezes the U.S.A's ass.


Global violent deaths have been trending downward consistently since ww2, even given our new “permanent war” status. We simply just don’t have large-scale wars anymore.




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