I feel like I’m a really good judge of character; I can tell if I’m not going to get along with someone or how they will treat me in the future. When it comes to high profile celebrity figures, i can get a sense of their character through very minimal data. This is why I predict Andrew Tate (toxic manosphere influencer) will pivot into becoming an alien conspiracy influence. But I have no evidence for it, thus the prediction is baseless.
Anyone have any similar beliefs/predictions?
Seems very plausible.
As a kid i always wondered why countries didn’t buy up parts of other countries to avoid bloodshed for territory.
I still figure it could work really well for wealthy governments like Switzerland but i now realise that:
A) A country’s proper area is very important to it, especially an “ancient” country like Switzerland’s neighbours,
B) Citizens do cause a fuss about having their leaders change undemocratically or suddenly - it could make taxes or travel different - and they tend to revolt at sudden unconsented change like that, even if it’s only surface level.
I see this being most likely to occur for places like middle eastern oil states, so Oligarchs is definitely the right conditionality. Or big empires like the USA and China
One stratagem is to buy up the territory and then be mindful of the needs of those who are already on it.
The problem is, when we’re rich and powerful, it’s just way to easy to indulge our racist and classist proclivities, and then do a genocide.
Seriously, we humans just haven’t evolved past the bush tribes we were fifty thousand years ago.
The united stated purchased a bunch of territory.
Yes, true. Could have been known as the great merchant empire, but it’s overshadowed by their attempts and successes at military conquest and coup d’etats instead.