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No real power to. State sovereignty is the foundation of geopolitics and globalized enforcement of morality is maybe at its infancy, if it will even get anywhere.


Also, if you accept the maxim that government gets its power and legitimacy from the consent of the governed (whether voluntary or under threat of violence) it should quickly become apparent how difficult it is to force the matter.


and it will stop as soon as random countries start flying weaponized drones over America over causes that we would be completely blindsided by and would never reach consensus on changing


What a terrifying phrase, globalized enforcement of morality, it stirs images of the crusades and colonization of the americas in my mind.


It's just the typical liberal self perception of US and western foreign policy. But it's definitely a particularly extreme example, I don't know what you would even really respond to such a statement:

> "State sovereignty is the foundation of geopolitics and globalized enforcement of morality is maybe at its infancy"

I don't really even know where to begin, it could be satire?


Maybe it's a very sci-fi long term view where we have been living through the violent and misguided infancy of global enforcement of morality for centuries.




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