This take ain't it.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1162419917649408001 …
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Why do authoritarian or democratically backsliding countries feel more emboldened to do these kinds of things? How crass is framing erosion of democratic self-governance as "M&A"? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/opinion/hong-kong-kashmir-trump.html …
geography has only been frozen for a few decades, and largely because of america’s military superpower. nations shrinking, expanding, reshaping is the rule, not the exception to it. fukuyama was wrong, history will carry on.
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I too am nostalgic for WWI and 19th century imperialism.
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i think a better framework for thinking about this than "you love world war" might be... which american expansion do you regret? florida? the louisiana territory? california?
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There is so much land in the world, it is a shame that we've closed off the possibility of new countries and experiments, and I don't think that's sustainable either. Innovation and change are the norm.
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He's also moderated his view on this in the last couple years.
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