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> As far as I could tell the world was even more globalised back then It was not. How could it be? Cheap and fast long range transportation, the Internet, mass consumerism,interconnected financial systems... What could possibly make you think the world was more globalised in the 1910s than 2020s? And yes, many people said a war is impossible due to the globalisation. I guess what they missed was telling it to the peo…
European economies were fairly integrated, though. Not as much as today, but enough that the war caused a massive disruption to everyone involved. Europe of 1914 was actually much more liberal than people tend to think. With the exception of Russia and Turkey, which required passports from visitors, you could travel passport-free around the entire Europe, settle down and work wherever you wanted. There were many rail…
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#301If there was enough of a concentration of power then those things don't matter as much, but even then they'd be considered deterrents to war. Given we mostly have democratically elected governments now war will be much harder to sell.