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sistersmith's avatar

I agree with your analysis but it occurrs to me that threatening the metaphoric 'madman with the hand granate in the elevator' is perhaps the best way to make him pull the plug. In other words, forming the coalition you suggest and then confronting the US with it, isn't that the best way to bring about that "big overarching cataclysm", that you mention? I'm not suggesting meekly submitting to the US. But I think the presidents of Russia and China are wise in also managing the madman's insanity.

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Martin Schwab's avatar

In the spirit of 1787 Philadelphia, 1848 Europe and 1989 China, eight billion humans together can peacefully dismantle 193 nations (entrenched authoritarian hierarchies) and self-organize synergistically among 1) Asia-Pacific, 2) The Americas and 3) Africa-Europe, comprised of about 12 subdivisions or cultural bioregions each. Such a fusion of labor and ingenuity is how we can expand beyond Earth more rapidly and permanently than we have been able to do since the moon race/landings concluded in 1972 thus enriching life on our homeplanet as well. The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz “Handshake in Space” Mission remains a template of the possible.

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