>If you're assertive and the other party keeps pushing you, what is the outcome?
Disagreement?
People do that all the time.
And people who only honor power usually solve these disagreements using violence.
To avoid this outcome being common, we created a monopoly on violence inside states so disagreements have to be solved via courts and not violence.
We don't have this in geo politics.
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