• Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Challenge countries? LMAO, no. Maybe one of them, some particularly daft cunt, might delude himself into saying or doing some shit that attracts the attention of some state actor, and then either “kill himself” or just “pass away”.

    Serious state actors can point a districts worth of people into the sole interest of murder. Most of these people don’t even know what they’re doing or why. Just entire machinery solely for killing one dude, and this dude doesn’t even have a nuke or two to launch if things go sideways? Training exercise. More likely it’s going to be their own government.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      18 hours ago

      There are already Sociopathic Oligarchs whose fortunes dwarf the GDP of many small countries. You are assuming they’ll be challenging superpowers, but they don’t need to do that.

      All they have to do is conquer a small nation, probably an island, that NOBODY is going to defend beyond a chewing out, and they’ve been chewed out before.

      So then they control a place like Madagascar, or Papua New Guinea, or whatever, and it’s doubtful that the rest of the world will go against them, especially when all the Oligarchs in those countries warn their bought and paid for politicians to stay. Besides, a consortium of Trillionaires can buy off any country that objects.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        Why bother attacking an island when you can buy off a whole legislator in an actual superpower? They’ve been doing it state by state in the US, and they’re about to do the same to the whole country (this test run is largely working, obviously).