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
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