This advantage should be completely irrelevant going forward.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean.
Are you saying that basically all countries that democracies might have strategic conflicts with will also become democracies, such that the warfighting advantage democracies have will become irrelevant (since there’ll be a level playing field)? But if that’s what you’re saying, then it seems to me that the advantage would still be relevant in the important sense that any country which “backslid” from being a democracy would suddenly have a disadvantage in war?
Interesting comment!
I’m not sure I understand what you mean.
Are you saying that basically all countries that democracies might have strategic conflicts with will also become democracies, such that the warfighting advantage democracies have will become irrelevant (since there’ll be a level playing field)? But if that’s what you’re saying, then it seems to me that the advantage would still be relevant in the important sense that any country which “backslid” from being a democracy would suddenly have a disadvantage in war?