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ELI5: How countries like Costa Rica can just abolish their military and manage to live without an army for so long time??

It was abolished in 1949!!
gpt
Who lives right next door to Costa Rica? - The USA.

The same USA that has made it absolutely clear that nobody... NOBODY picks a fight with the people in our backyard (except us).  The same USA that spends more money on military than the next 10 countries on the list combined.

Costa Rica doesn't need an army... they have the US military.