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Mexico seems to do pretty well 😁 Laugh aside. I think that one will find that the ONLY way to ever take over another country for a longer duration, is by providing a better society and you will st...

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This is a good answer.

But wars are about resource control and not so much winning over populations.
I think the aggressor just has to occupy and hope the insurgents don't give them too much static while they steal all their shit.

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This is where Bitcoin (or really anything hard to steal) comes in handy, because it's suddenly a lot less cut and dry that you can just go in with a force and take all the gold. But if they wanna take the fuel, food, and other resources, yea, they can just do that with a sufficiently powerful force...

Yes, true.. The money=power issue has always been an issue, even the most liberal economists have recognized money and power tends to accumulate in the hands of the few. Anti-monopoly laws, anti-cartel laws, forced redistribution, patents, inflation, taxation etc. has been their answers. But, often...

I mean, "fuel, food, and other resources" is kinda what really matters at the end of the day lol. Bitcoins are only useful insofar as they can buy those things.