Most states die by homicide, not suicide. But the Brits have always insisted on being different I suppose.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1105814615118745600 …
Is "most" backed up by real numbers? Now that you pose it, I wonder if it's true. (Obviously one would have to define the terms precisely...)
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I was doing an "in my head" calculation at the gym when I wrote this and most states that get regime changed or "die" are often through war--so homicide. Not self inflicted wounds. But I'm spitballing.
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Pretty baffling turn of phrase. I suppose intended to mean that most states collapse owing to external rather than internal pressures? Doesn't strike me as something either a) backed up by the historical record or b) something we can really test?
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And presumably historians will slot the Brexit fiasco into a longue durée history of British decline. How will you distinguish the internal from external factors? And what are we talking about here? The end of the UK? The UK in its most extensive form only lasted 120 years.
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And to be a little more contrarian. Isn't the US in the midst of its own prolonged suicide attempt? Seems to me that the centrifugal forces are pretty strong, anyway!
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Also, don't discount the fact that there was a lot of fraudulent advertising even I can remember two years ago.
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