Okay, people and institutions (like states) own things, and ownership is generally respected no matter what the owner decides to do with the property. But is this the wrong way to think about ownership and property: the relationship between something and an entity that has exclusive access to it?It's become clearer over time that letting the owner do anything at all with certain property can be socially destructive and harm other people if the owner is irrational, like if a guy burns his house down and the fire department has to put it out and the fire risks spreading through the area. Thus we limit property rights, which are rights pertaining to access and disposition to things, to limit broader social damage in the case that the owner (the one with exclusive access - the ability to exclude others from access - and the right to dispose of the property as he sees fit - to do with it what he wants) does not use or take care of the property in a manner that is either socially permissible or even socially expected. Land is the most important kind of property there is and it always has been, even serving as the basis for entire social systems (as in feudalism) and being that which defines the bounds of a state's power, such that states are territorial phenomena whose recognized power is delimited to some territory (literally, to some area of land and some volume of it as well: below the surface and above). Without land, there cannot be a state, as a state must have a domain: some area it has exclusive rights to its disposition or use. Land used the wrong way, for example inefficiently when it can be used much more productively were circumstances different like if it had a different owner, is deleterious to a broader group, so that a field that's never planted even while the economy needs more food results in a social loss: a loss for the whole that exceeds any gain for the owner. Similarly, a country whose territory is put to bad use, or no use, even while the world
>>526418604needs what that land can produce, can, depending on circumstances, do more damage to the world than any advantage that is wrought by the owner. This is the logic of dispossession, i.e. the grounds on which property can be removed from its owner and transferred to a new owner for the sake of benefits that are greater than whatever benefit the owner sees from misusing or not using his property. Russia is a country marked by a particularly cruel or sadistic culture, rather like the United States, which, as Chris Hedges rightly points out, "has always had a deep undercurrent of violence in its culture." But the United States, while being culturally cruel or sadistic, does make good use of things: efficient use of land, minerals, human resources or labor, and even human ingenuity (though the US is becoming less creative as the culture grows rigid and stiff, which is making the US much less efficient than it used to be in its use of human intellectual resources). However, we are not at the point, yet, where dispossessing the United States of its property, mainly its land, may be justified or even necessary for the sake of broader benefits among all the stakeholders, who are everyone in the world.Russia, on the other hand, has been the largest country in the world, by far, and for centuries has made little use of its vast territory as compared with other countries, firstly Europe - whom Russia sought to emulate since Tsar Peter, but mostly failed at this endeavor - and then the United States, which developed later than Britain but went on to be an efficient and therefore good steward of its real property, and nowadays even China, who is making excellent use of its resources and has produced what is arguably the most remarkable economic "miracle" in history by achieving the largest and fastest economic growth ever seen, thereby lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and ensuring its population of more than a billion people will not suffer
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>>526419253famine again. Hence Europe, the United States, and China - and of course Japan as well, but Japan is a small player compared to these others - have strong claim to their property, mainly their lands, which claims are not susceptible to accusations of misuse of nonuse. In fact Europe, the USA, China, and Japan as well set the standard in the world for good use of property, again mainly land. The Middle Eastern countries misuse capital regularly due to their social systems and culture, where an extremely wealth king or other royal may spend billions of dollars from the national treasury building a ski resort in the Arabian desert that relies on constant production of artificial snow. The Middle East is famous for such foolish use of resources and capital, such that Western control (which is like indirect ownership) of Middle Eastern petroleum resources is better for the world than if Middle Eastern leaders were themselves in control of the use of their oil resources. Russia has by far the most resources of any country, but it has never done much with them, as compared to how the most efficient countries use their resources. Much smaller countries have grown much richer than Russia despite having not even 1% of the resource wealth that Russia possesses. Russians remain poor, by the standards of the advanced countries, despite sitting on the largest mountain of minerals and other natural resources of any country. And Russia has very good human resources as well, in the form of a well educated population that also has abundant trade skills (now lacking in the advanced countries), and still Russia fails to make proper, efficient use of its human capital, as Russia could be much more innovative and creative than it has been. Russia's main periods of ingenuity, i.e. high-level usage of human intellectual resources, occurred in the late 19th century and during the mid 20th century, when Russia was a major cultural producer and then a scientific pioneer.
muh heckin innocent mouserino!!
>>526419756Try to ignore the propaganda bots gaying up the board.
>>526418604They're desperate to find that fucking wizard that sent an army of Skavens to gather intel. He quite literally snuck into their base as a mouse. They've been seething ever since.
>>526419964The world is now advancing rapidly in computing technology, an advance which has been ongoing for decades but which is undergoing a new acceleration as artificial intelligence technology and automation begin to reach maturity. These technologies require vast mineral resources to construct and then maintain, and Russia holds so many of these resources that the world may not even be able to develop these key areas of technology, and thus advance to the next stage of human economic development and of civilized living, without access to Russia's land and the minerals the land contains. Much of Russia's problem in failing to make good use of its natural riches is due to a culture of autocracy and tyranny that extends back to Russia's beginnings, and a culture of autocracy is always also a culture marked by cruelty and even sadism, which is then found in ordinary people and their behavior after years of abuse by the society's leaders. In other words, tyrannical leadership damages the whole society and alters the people's culture in violent ways, and places with such cultures tend to become stagnant, since free inquiry and expression are stymied by the social order's desire to maintain tyrannical control. Tyrannical, hyper-authoritarian countries tend to make the worst use of their resources, and this is a detriment to the world, whose economy has been global for centuries now and which global economy is becoming ever more deeply interconnected. In this kind of world, where every part depends on every other part, one area remaining autocratic, uncreative, stagnant, and unproductive constitutes a great loss for everyone else; if all the world were under proper leadership, which requires a decent culture, then the world overall would be far better served in the sense that its inhabitants' standard of living would be far higher. So, do we need to dispossess Russia or some or all of its landholdings on the grounds that Russia is damaging the world and the world
>>526418604pretty sure it was to fool detection systems making it think it's a bird instead of a dronefucked up still
>>526418604do they know that you're supposed to only use one suicide bomber for each bomb?
>>526420761economy by remaining unproductive due to Russia's inability - throughout its history - to shake off tyranny and thus enable innovation and efficiency?Russia's land would be far better served in the possession of Europe, the United States, and even China, and also if Japan owned it, but Japan is too small of a concern in the world to be a candidate for ownership of Russia's tremendous landmass. Europe and the United States are very aware of the wasted potential that is Russia owning all that land, which is why Europe, for centuries (at least since Napoleon, who was a modernizer), has been attempting, off and on, to relieve Russia of its territory, and the United States has become party to this effort as well in recent generations. And I am not picking on Russia or singling it out. Africa, for example, absolutely needs European or general Western rule in order to be efficient and thrive. The Iron Age inhabitants of the Dark Continent are unable to use their vast lands and natural wealth for the betterment of themselves and of the world. A new age of imperialism needs to occur, one akin to The New Imperialism of the late 1800s and early 1900s when European countries took over almost the entire world, while America ruled the America. China was the only major non-Western country not colonized in that era, but China was effectively controlled by Europe, especially Britain, anyway through a series of agreements and through the establishment of European-only ports after the Opium Wars. But China today is a good economic actor in the world and does not need to be dispossessed of its property like the late Qing Dynasty was. South America is eternally inefficient, hence why the US rules it indirectly. Now, in the New New Imperialism, Latin America may find itself under direct US rule, as Africa may find itself under either direct or indirect European rule. The Middle East is also a poor owner, a bad steward of its lands, and so would do better to be under
Theyre probably twisting and spinning everything in a propaganda move I doibt its for entertainment its probably for good measurement and luck
>>526421542the control of Europe, the US, China, or any combination of these powers. A new dividing up of the world, as happened in the late 1800s New Imperialism, is called for, given the economic situation in the world today, where greater access to minerals by the most efficient countries is required in order to pursue the project of human development worldwide. And this will not result in some tyranny of the Western World and China over the rest of the world. Rather, all the inhabitants of the world, including those who are colonized, will benefit as technological advancement and economic development continues on, now in an era of rapid acceleration which calls for the best use possible of the world's resources. Hence all peoples in the world need this new division of the planet to take place, which places all parts of the world, all its regions, in the hands of one of the top economic and scientific actors.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism
>>526421841The US and UK, historic allies and co-colonizers of a sort, could remake the British Empire with the Americas as well and call it the Anglo Empire.Continental Europe, which is the real Europe anyway since the UK has always defined itself differently, could take all of Africa and European Russia for its empire.China can have Siberia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East for its Empire. Perhaps India can remain independent, or else, like China in 1905, be shared by all the main empires. And Japan remains an ally of the Anglo Empire.
>>526420151>Tortures small animals for fun>Bring up actual war crimes in another conversation >WHY MASSA WE'D NEVUHNiggers of the world.
they're also getting rid of the mouse problem
