punkly current events

[Eugen Leitl]

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.

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