Talk:Academy City/@comment-3969505-20140726090043

Doesn't academy city puts the country of japan (with whom they share inner borders) at risk of war by proxy ? or alternatively will force Japan to occupy them in turn ?, sure they are independent-city-state and all, but their leadership got an incredibly aggressive, unreasonably risky foreign policy/agenda with the military might (both in superior quality and sufficient quantity) to project it effectively any where they chose to, the only reason none of that happened so far is because biting them back will either result in loss or will be too phyric a "victory" for the retaliatory parties to really try, can you imagine if in our world the Vatican were (and had the resources/tech for it) to directly and openly condut all kinds of bloody destructive, "military" terrorist attacks against territories (and countries) outside of it's independent city-state ? either Italy will be forced to respond and correct that issue or Italy will be damaged by proxy from the retaliating nations.

it's kinda ridiculous.

Imagine if the North Korea (with all if it's aggressive agenda but with a far far far better military tech and stuff) was an independant city-state INSIDE South Korea's territory (of course they wouldn't be named like that if that was the case but that's basically the situation with AC and Japan here).

the Alpha World is not too far removed from the plausible long-term consequences for AC+Japan, especially if they don't have all that ultra-superior army tech and stuff to keep the retaliating aggressors at bay or simply cannot rely on it any longer to give them such an steamrolling advantage in any engagement.

it wouldn't surprise me if AC just for a scenario like this has an additional "insurance policy" in the form of a Killer-Satelite or a network of orbiting sats like that, similar to the ones from G.I.Joe-2 movie (Cobra's Zeus Sat) or the Ion Cannon (C&C:Tiberium videogames)

[the turth is that the original author goes to some absurd lengths to insure AC's continued supermacy and untouchability throughout the series, likely until the plot element with Crowley is resolved]

it could be argued that considering that this is an semi-alternate reality/history and decades or so into the future, the global warming disasters and oil shortages are already in full swing, Academy City's contributions in these areas is the only thing keeping the global scene from falling into complete anarchy, keeping many nations dependant on them to carry on living their lives normally.