Dan, that dark line running south from Switzerland is the shared border between France and Italy.

Brian Azevedo
1 min readMay 6, 2019

And how about China and Russia? You picked countries which work well for reasons that constitute straw men due to their distance. Every country has an arbitrary border. France and Italy, by the way, have no shared border.

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Sorry. Brain. Took something to sleep and my internal globe ended up on some alternative plane or something.
However, if you look at Milan, Monaco, and other regions on the border, you’ll start to see that there is no solid distinction, just as is…

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