Brexit Thread

[Husar]

Not in the past, I'm afraid. Back then people thought in terms of "more territory - more power". Some of them still do now. But I believe contemporary world has realized (perhaps it was just impossible before) that a country can become powerful through other means. You don't need to annex some land to spread your influence over it. All you need is to inundate this territory with your goods, films, TV produce, companies, technologies, in a word - your material and spiritual culture - and the land is yours. So not in the past, now and in future - yes.

The problem is that governments are not doing that, but corporations.
So you think that corporations will replace governments in the future?
The whole powerful through other means thing basically relies on having a big technological and therefore economical and military advantage over others. For this to remain true, others need to be actively stopped from developing to reach similar levels as your own, that's like a slave owner mentality except that the ones you keep down live beyond a border fence and you always claim that they're sovereign and responsible for their own issues while you intentionnally try to keep them worse than you to maintain your power. How that is morally any better than outright conquering them or joining with them and allowing them the same basic rights and standards is something you need to explain to me.

You don't look further than Europe. Nations exist beyond it. So it will take more than one uberstate to solve the problem ultimately.

You say that as though I were not aware even though I specifically mentioned that.
And no, it does not, once the EU grows into the OWG, the problem can be ultimately solved for everyone.

"Voda" sounds more like "What da", not "who da". And when you hear "what da..."+ F, the mind easily anticipates the completion of the phrase.

You and your dirty mind, I cannot relate, sorry.