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The Vietnam war, Americans were told the same thing.
That's when they started fragging their commanders.
The US also brought a bunch of mercenaries to fight in Vietnam.
Removing Russia as a culture and nation would improve the world drastically overnight.
I mean, Russia is at least 3rd on the list of countries that would improve the world through their absence. I'd start with the US, then Israel.
This take is fraught with overgeneralization, and completely unfair as well.
You understand there are citizens in Russia, everyday people like you and I in Russia that have nothing to with this war, right? They too are not represented by their government and have zero choice in what their leader chooses to do.
Yeah, plenty of Russians are being oppressed by their government, that's why I've had a problem with Russia since before this (well that and the annexation of Crimea, and the attacks on global democracy)
You are right, this has been going on for over a very long time now. They just don’t need to wear the mask any longer.
How about remove Russia, China, the US, and Israel.
Not the people, just the countries. Re-divide the territories, the US should be broken up into 50 independent states at least. Israel should return most of the conquered lands to the Palestinians. China and Russia should be broken up into smaller states
No more super powers!
Now cap personal wealth per person at 1 million dollars (anything over goes 100% to tax) so no more billionaires either!
Now organize all countries to setup a UN with an actual army with teeth to kick any dictatorship in the teeth, no more assholes
NOW the world can become a nice place.
As someone in one of those 50 states that would turn into a country that make the Taliban blush, please no
Actually, yes, please.
I know, it sucks for you, and I really do feel for you, but what are you doing there anyway?
Its either that, or these taliban wannabees will eventually turn all the 50 states into a handmaids tale territory.
Split it up, and let those red states turn into third world banana dictatorships that won't be able to feed their own population. Maybe then people there will understand that they're wrong?
but what are you doing there anyway?
I can't afford to even live here let alone move
But without any superpowers, who would have the power to stop someone while they consolidate more power?
Lest we forget… power began with the nobles. Soon after, it moved to the lords of land, because they could control the marketplaces, discourse, farming... We regulated the land and soon after it moved to the lords of production, because they could control the process which produced commodities, necessities, and anything else to be consumed… We regulated the production and soon after it moved to the lords of technology, because once again they control the marketplaces and discourse.
In your view of the ideal world, how do you prevent power dynamics from shifting in ways that yield control to the bad actors of society? If you ever have a good answer to that, then here’s the follow up: how do you install that world, without subsequently making the Installer a superpower in its own right?
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No more billionaires, or millioniares even. Put a world wide (I know) wealth cap at, say, 1 million. Any income (or wealth) over that goes straight to taxes. The poor pay no taxes. Governments get enough income to cover free healthcare, free education, UBI. Everybody is more or less the same richness
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With that, power dynamics already become much less important. If nobody can hoard money (the inevitable root of power) nobody can get crazy rich
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Break up all the current super powers (plus israel for being the biggest dick in the world right now) into smaller states. Have all states in the world join the UN and give the UN an army that is controlled by no single country, its controlled by all countries. It's only missions should be peace, stability, and democracy
Those points should bring the world there.
- This sounds like communism. The problem is that the enforcer is vulnerable. They have far too much power themselves, being able to distribute wealth as such.
You need a system that just works that way. Not something that needs to be enforced. Like how you need more and more energy to get mass to the speed of light, up to infinite energy to go exactly at c. IMO, the best system would work like this, but in a way of preserving power to the masses of people in a more socialist-democratic kind of way.
The workers should own the means of production. There should be collectives of people everywhere, like some kind of federated society. And somehow, in some magic fucking way, all of this needs to work together without maintenance. That’s my personal opinion.
The problem is, I don’t think we’ve ever designed a society that is supposed to “work like gravity.” Not even sure where to begin, to be honest.
Organize all countries to setup a UN with an actual army with teeth to kick any dictatorship in the teeth
The current UN is a joke, it doesn't do shit. I want a UN that is ALL nations and it has an army and it can kick any asshole dictatorship down into submission and turn it into a democracy
Democracy by force, is that it? Wouldn’t your UN be an authoritarian entity, then? Imperialistically forcing its view on everyone abroad?
But what of socialism, communism, capitalism, and the many other forms of economics that yield control to various other groups — even within a democracy?
What do you mean by removing it as a culture. I don’t understand what this means.
You have to capture their capital city and select that option from the pop-up box. Gives you a hefty diplomatic penalty for several turns.
Russian history is a timeline of the worst execution of a terrible system for running an expansive wilderness built out of fear by greed.
Russia doesn't deserve to be remembered. It doesn't deserve a language. The people should not continue as "Russian". They can be split up and diversified across smaller states that can reinvigorate suppressed local cultures. "Russian" is basically short hand for Asian Imperialism and it's far outlived any usefulness for the people.
I don’t know if you missed it or anything but the people of Russia didn’t collectively of their own volition decide that a mob oligarchy network of former Soviet Bureaucrats and State Security should be the government
The working class and the poor of Russia did not orchestrate this or the war. Look to the top.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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