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Russia has more than 80 oblasts and republiques, China is a huge land, USA too...
Europe, in comparison, us really small. Seriously, a teacher teached us that the complete Europe is practically our country (Argentina). Then, you don't have opportunity in a separated forn. But you must cooperate positively with others (abandoning the colonialism). USA, China and Russia are the doom of world.
Evidently, we need to explore another options that it's not to submit to dictatorships but to live a good human life.
At time of writing, the EU is 4 million kmยฒ, Argentina's land area is 2,780,085 kmยฒ. The whole continent of Europe is about 10,014,000 kmยฒ. Depending on when you were taught this factoid, your teacher was not correct.
are you considering lands out of continental area? (conquered islands, so on)
By area Argentina is 66% of EU and EU is 43% of USA. Although Argentina is still the 8th.
The whole continent of Europe is a little bit larger than the USA. At least with how it is defined on Wikipedia (Ural mountain/river as border) and Russia would cover 39% of that area.
Surely you cannot compare Argentina to a bloc with almost 10 times the population and 31 times the GDP.
To further illustrate, approximately:
Quantity is not quality.
Who defeated the British army twice? They only conquested a bunch of islands.
Unfortunately that requires the capability to deter using force. We are all still aggressive territorial chimps, only now we are chimps capable of creating portable stars.
Unless you find a way to convince biologically/inherently violent people to calm the fuck down and listen, your vision of not submitting to dictatorships and living peacefully by simply asking nicely will never work .
No. The force is limited. Donald Trump is pure Yang... but energic tactics are costly. Trumps causes a negative reaction and he puts the people in risk. For example, Europe is considering new diplomacy.
USA is a giant... but with mud feet. Dollars go out, gold bars go in. Gadafi bye bye... but we keep buying gold bars and selling dollars.
Global militar bases are really expensive. How much time you believe USA can keep it? Without global money, in horrible debt and without allies. And with California and others thinking if to be part of this country (USA) is convenient really. See Texit and Calexit.
Bonobo chimps use sex to calm the males down, which allows them to live so fucking peacefully among other chimp tribes. If only contemporary society was so open to such a concept.
Great DJ.
That's...not going to work on humans. Maybe world leaders, but not the masses.
Think a little less directly, meeting people's needs vs bombing them. In the US, ~6 hours of "defense" spending could put everyone in the country on food stamps for a year
That works, somewhat.
But if you tell a person "I'm going to fuck you, calm down" they just call the police, or deck you in the face.
Meanwhile the European countries with legalized brothels/prostitution dont spend enormous amounts of money on their own defense budget and are chill af to visit as a tourist.
The correlation not causation thing...
Fine. Ngl, sex work is illegal here, period. Probably for the best.
Yeah, we have 5000 plus years of culture engrained into us about male control of women, so women using sex to pacify males, probably wonโt work.