Geopolitics Is Not a Two Player Game

The framers of those constitutions realized that if a large portion of your population become renters and or homeless, you end up with a volatile population ready for revolution. And in order to prevent stasis, you need to put guard rails in place so that none of your citizens become either dirt poor or filthy rich. Next adymantus steers the discussion toward foreign policy. If faced with a single rich and powerful enemy, he says, callypolus would indeed be in trouble. But in reality, geo politics is not a two player game,. It's massively multiplayer, and there are always allies available - especially if you incentivise other states to throw in their lot with you.