On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:53:26AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok, Iran, N Kr,
Most places outside US which are not banana republics. I'm living in one.
until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah, they have a lot of 'net bandwidth, right.
And if extradition isn't happening fast enough, we'll send a DEA agent or snatch-und-grab specops to kidnap them.
What, all this to shut down a remop? Could as well reprogram one of these aging ICBMs...
Hegemony isn't just for breakfast anymore. If you think you're not under Bush's boot, you just haven't pissed him off enough, yet.
Which threat model? Individual remop, a country, a bloc? Last time I looked US deficit was well on the way to turn thalers into Soviet-era paper. It is somewhat hard to posture as a world hegemon if everybody knows you're only operating because every significant investor is propping you up, since running danger of losing their entire investment (in for a penny...). If it's going to give, it's going to be a landslide. Of course, then the entire house of cards is going to crash down, which would suck. It could even bring down the tigers/dragons, though they probably have enough own momentum by now. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]