RETURNS AS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL SYSTEM – BUT WHY? NUCLEAR WEAPONS? It appears

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepal-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-the-country-in-the-long-run/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1NATIONALISM RETURNS AS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL SYSTEM – BUT WHY? NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

It appears that the universalists program advocated by the enlightenment is unsuccessful and that nationalism (tribalism at scale), will return to its historical status as the dominant political ideology.

This is in part because the value of scale in obtaining credit necessary to finance war has been nearly eliminated by the (strange) influence of nuclear weapons. If a country can afford nuclear weapons it does not need to engage in large scale defense projects, because its boundaries are secure. Conversely (as Mr Putin has demonstrated) a country without nuclear weapons cannot claim sovereignty.

SO just as credit, conscription, and ‘total war’ defined the past five hundred years, it appears that nuclear weapons, and small scale nationalism which better serves the interests of citizens, will replace empires and military-credit-industrialism.

Hence, oddly enough, nuclear weapons end up having produced intuitive political orders.

Strange but true.

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