Goodwood wrote...
Holy crap, have you even read a single history book in your entire life?
Yes, and Alliances are fairly loose. American generals did not order around British generals. Allied troops don't literally fight side by side; they each have their own corner of the theater or even a separate theater entirely. What is most important in an alliance is coordinating intelligence and agreeing upon a strategy.
You know why friendly fire incidents happen in Afghanistan and Iraq? American and British troops don't directly communicate. If the Americans need to ID a suspicious formation on the ground they have to radio back to their HQ who has to radio to the Brits or whomever else may be in that area and then
they have to radio their commanders and find out who is on the ground and where. Then they have to relay all that information back until it reaches the American pilots who may have already fired because they can't afford to wait and get shot down.
That's how it works because no government is going to give control of their military over to a foreign power. With the multi-racial Council all the species need to agree before they can send their fleet do anything. Ultimately the Council races aren't gonna send their fleet in to defend anybody unless they can get something out of it. So far they haven't been terribly interested in working with humantiy, even if you saved them. Contrary-wise, if you replaced them with all humans then once they've consolidated their forces we'll be able to take unilateral action without having to win the approval of anyone else.
When the Reapers hit we'll be capable of defending ourselve with our without anyone's help. Regardless, as long as it is better for the turians to help us than to stay neutral or work against us they'll join in. That remains true regardless of whether they are still on the Council or not. Wars are about resources, about money, and convenience, and nothing else.
Goodwood wrote...
The Council was operating as a balance of alliances, shared interests, and networks of economies when the Roman Empire was still trying to figure out how to consolidate Germania (hint: the Romans never could). Sure they made mistakes, but they survived the Rachni Wars, the Krogan Rebellions, and how many other unmentioned trials and tribulations before we had even learned how to fly!
All of that is completely irrelevant, not to mention the Morning War and Krogan Rebellions are
not positive points in the Council's history. Even more recently we have their failure to act against the Saren and the geth. The Council hasn't fought a real war in a thousand years, they no longer have the political capability or the willpower to fight. Humanity though hasn't been lulled into pacifism by ten centuries of peace. There is a
reason we were able to compete with the turians despite having only a tiny fraction of the experience in space, there is a
reason we and not they are the only species developing novel technologies like medigel, the Normandy, and fighter carriers.
Interesting you should bring up Europe. They were the leading world powers for centuries and yet their experience failed to stop two world wars. Under the United States no such global castastrophes have occured. Even the Cold War never went hot. Ultimately a multipolar world is dangerous; everyone is better off with only one big power.
Goodwood wrote...
Those of us with working eyes, working ears, and half a functional brain can see that they have far more experience at galactic governence than humanity has at governence period!
All of that experience has amounted to nothing as I just explained. The Council races have stagnated and have only maintained their farce of piece by sacrificing the needs of the arrogantly named "lesser races". The galaxy needs new leadership.
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