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I’m sorry but I’m not going to explain how disincentivizing it is to produce a competing system of control when an effective one already exists.
By your logic, countries other than 'the west' could just as easily put out their own DSM equivalent with biases based on their culture and situation. Have they? >

Depends on how expensive their militaries are, no?
(The DSM started as a manual created by the U.S. military: shocker!) >

Is the only way you could make something like the DSM through the military? No, of course not.