Great @palladiummag article on charter cities and the contradiction between the vision of autonomous libertarian utopias and the reality of great-power politics. This is what "criticism" should be - thoughtful, well-researched, and nuanced, not just tribal affiliation signaling.https://twitter.com/palladiummag/status/1049411887559991296 …
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Explosive WMD proliferation -- which is absolutely inevitable -- will sort these problems out.
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The M is sufficiently large wrt small states, and sufficiently small wrt large states, for the former to fail at deterrence. Additionally, conventional energy will redirect unabated into spy wars, NGO-veiled domestic agitation, and low footprint spec ops kinetic action.
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Deterrence only requires the ability to cause enough pain to outweigh the benefits of aggression. That's entirely doable, even for micro-states. Spies, NGOs, etc. just have to be dealt with. Again, quite doable.
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