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No. Why? Men with guns.

dane-pgp 5y ago
That's not a particularly persuasive answer. Men with guns have killed nation states before, and digital technologies have influenced men with guns.
- Zigurd 5y ago
  Right answer. Wrong reason. Conventional armed might grows much more slowly than does economic productivity and trade. The relationship and relative power have shifted. "Men with guns" and "killing a nation state" that has a modern economy is a fantasy. This is not to say there is no reason why the fantasy persists: Men with poor social and economic prospects will harbor that fantasy. But they are powerless, and guns will not change that. It just makes their fantasy uglier when they try to make it real.
  - voakbasda 5y ago
    Guerrilla warfare stands a real chance to disrupt any nation state. Do not discount a bunch of men with guns.
- citizenpaul 5y ago
  That is not really very true and in most cases those men had support of another government. The idea of a guerilla revolution is mostly a fantasy since the invention of semi automatic weapons.
FredPret 5y ago
Men with guns are an important factor, but the question remains: where to send them, and with what orders. Thus information is a critical factor. Doubly so because information generates the money used to pay the men and buy the guns.
- citizenpaul 5y ago
  Despite all the clueless politicians you see on tv the actual commanders of the people with the guns have a very clear idea of where the guns need to go and what to do when they get there. Civil power centers, production factories, shipping/trucking/train ports, power plants, water processing. That is where guns go all else is secondary. The guns decide what money holds value in the first place. The best technology will ever do is play second fiddle to the guns. If you don't agree the guns will shoot you and now your opinions and tech don't matter. Also other people will fall in line once they see the guns doing their job.

That's not a particularly persuasive answer. Men with guns have killed nation states before, and digital technologies have influenced men with guns.

Zigurd 5y ago
Right answer. Wrong reason. Conventional armed might grows much more slowly than does economic productivity and trade. The relationship and relative power have shifted. "Men with guns" and "killing a nation state" that has a modern economy is a fantasy. This is not to say there is no reason why the fantasy persists: Men with poor social and economic prospects will harbor that fantasy. But they are powerless, and guns will not change that. It just makes their fantasy uglier when they try to make it real.
- voakbasda 5y ago
  Guerrilla warfare stands a real chance to disrupt any nation state. Do not discount a bunch of men with guns.
citizenpaul 5y ago
That is not really very true and in most cases those men had support of another government. The idea of a guerilla revolution is mostly a fantasy since the invention of semi automatic weapons.

FredPret 5y ago

Men with guns are an important factor, but the question remains: where to send them, and with what orders. Thus information is a critical factor. Doubly so because information generates the money used to pay the men and buy the guns.

citizenpaul 5y ago
Despite all the clueless politicians you see on tv the actual commanders of the people with the guns have a very clear idea of where the guns need to go and what to do when they get there. Civil power centers, production factories, shipping/trucking/train ports, power plants, water processing. That is where guns go all else is secondary. The guns decide what money holds value in the first place. The best technology will ever do is play second fiddle to the guns. If you don't agree the guns will shoot you and now your opinions and tech don't matter. Also other people will fall in line once they see the guns doing their job.