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To: skinowski who wrote (768424)9/24/2022 8:56:29 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 794294
 
The model of American success is millions of sovereign citizens VOLUNTARILY cooperating with each other.

Why does that model not scale up to nation states?



To: skinowski who wrote (768424)9/24/2022 8:56:58 AM
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  Respond to of 794294
 
Except that the fall of the USSR created some untenable situations, liable to end it all
PS: it occurs to me that the Russia - Ukraine situation is very close to Yugoslavia. A breakup of a larger federation of countries and ethnicities. Except that Russia is not Serbia - which could be wrecked and bombed for weeks and weeks by NATO, until they cried Uncle - and capitulated.



To: skinowski who wrote (768424)9/24/2022 10:13:51 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794294
 
Small states create large instabilities and internecine warfare. There's a reason that inter-state warfare declined worldwide as states aggregated into larger polities, especially in Europe. After Germany and Italy united there were two generations of relative peace in Europe until WW1.

One problem solved always seems to create another.