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The question is what do you mean by neutrality. For instance up until recently Finland was neutral, but they spend more money on defense than majority of NATO countries, they have compulsory military service and conscription and warplans that involve turning the whole country into one large military fortress. Being neutral means you have to prepare to face all threats without allies and thus it is much more difficult and costly when it comes to defense spending. Unless you are one of the countries like Switzerland, Austria or Ireland for which it is easy to be neutral as they are far away from any belligerent country.
But for instance if you are country like Belgium which was neutral both before WW1 and before WW2, then neutrality means jack shit when bordering a belligerent neighbor. The only thing neutrality achieved was preventing allies to station their troops there before Germans invaded. This fate of neutral countries was probably main reason why Finland recently decided to join NATO, as neutral Finland could prove to be a soft target for Russia once it wrapped its war in Ukraine. With Puting waving old imperial maps before people like Tucker Carlson when explaining Casus Belli, it is is easy to remember that up until 1917 the Grand Duchy of Finland was part of Russian Empire.
Maybe what you meant was something like Philippines becoming vassals of China instead of USA? That could work for preventing war, but it will not work for larger independence and neutrality as it is normally viewed.
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