World peace

World peace is a future ideal of freedom, peace and happiness among and within all nations. The realization of world peace may also make the idea of individual nations obsolete.

Cobdenism

Proponents of Cobdenism claim that by removing tariffs and creating international free trade, wars would become impossible, because free trade prevents a nation from becoming self-sufficient, which is a requirement for long wars. A simplified way of putting it is that if one country produces firearms and weapons parts and the other ammunition, they cannot fight one another, for the first nation will run out of ammunition, the second will run out of servible weapons. Critics argue that free trade does not prevent a nation from establishing some sort of emergency plan to become temporarely self-sufficient in case of war.

Related Topics:
Cobdenism - Free trade - Firearms - Ammunition

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