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Originally Posted by 4Tran
Functionally, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the two. In alliances, member states don't get attacked for trying to secede (then again, they don't have to secede in the first place).
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But President Bryan explicitly mentioned that the US was Taribia's ally, and that they were "fully obliged" to help them militarily if they needed it. Member states within a federation don't call each other "allies", them call each other compatriots or something to that effect.
Like I said before, the Union is most likely an entity that is practically unprecedented based on the way it is formulated in the first place. After all, the biggest project in the history of mankind and the lifeline to which billions of people depend on would create alliances that are much closer than any we've seen before. So unless we get a deeper idea of how the Union actually works, I don't think you can use contemporary definitions to discount anything.