Esslar2 on Nostr: This really seems to be right. Ever since I read Charles Tilly's paper "War Making ...

This really seems to be right. Ever since I read Charles Tilly's paper "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" (1985), I see nation-states as large-scale protection rackets thus criminal enterprises. That the so-called "United States of America" has an open criminal as its "leader," makes perfect sense. We don't need nation-states and never did. As Sophie Scott-Brown said, you are not going to deal with climate collapse, a world-wide problem, with a bunch of nation-states all only looking out for their own interests, money, and power. It just can't work that way.