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  • Because the two countries have been attacking each other economically, politically, intellectually, and digitally for decades now.

    Just because people aren't shooting guns at each other doesn't mean a war isn't happening.

    The US is also at war with China.

  • Not really how our monkey brains work generally. We're biologically programmed to do lots of things, like want to have babies (or at least sex and not be smart about it) and to take care of them. Not everyone does a good job, but historically speaking it's led to a population of a few hundred people turning into a few billion.

  • No, you can ask, the answer is that anyone with that kind of specialized knowledge is not handing it out for free to random people on the internet. The places that you could obtain it are expensive or require social groups that random lemmy trolls don't have.

  • I mean, if you want a great example, Genghis Khan killed his half brother at 8 years old in order to "secure his family position" then went on to lose a bunch of battles, then win a bunch of wars and murder his way to the top of an empire.

    If you don't think that's an example of strongest = leader, I don't know what to tell you.

    Modern cartel leaders are very similar in most cases, they've schemed, battled, and murdered their way to the top.

  • In wolves it's fake, in humans it's quite accurate.

    It still exists today so don't tell me it was never a case of the strongest = leader. Drug cartels are effectively states, and ruled by extreme violence (even internally)

    Even if your argument were accurate, that would be considered a state. A group of people agreeing on rules together is a state.

    Like I said, with few enough people and it could be considered "not a state" but there isn't any realistic way to have a stateless society of even tens of thousands of people, let alone the millions and billions of people that exist these days.

  • This is why I don't think it will ever happen.

    US Miliary personnel have worked hand in hand with the Canadians half a century doing everything from joint ops to sharing bases. I think a lot of them would simply refuse to invade Canada without congress first declaring an official war, and congress wouldn't do that because it would be horrifically unpopular with the US populace.

  • It wouldn't.

    Stateless societies don't work, that's why despite thousands of years of recorded history, we don't have any record of one ever succeeding.

    Even just having a village elder who decides disputes is a form of state. Hell, having parents who decide the rules in a family is a form of state.