Arsenal of Democracy vs Gunboat Diplomacy

Vidszhite said:

Freedom is bad at building happiness because they get halved specialist unhappiness. Great for a peace empire, terrible for warmongering. Autocracy swims in happiness. Unfortunately, I've found GD a bit lacking in one particular situation: the CS has a pledge of protection and an ally already. If you ARE the ally, it helps maintain those alliances nicely, but it is very difficult to scare a non ally CS late game.

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