It's an interesting article. The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ought to have been merged, a century ago. Unfortunately, British leaders could only think in terms of overseas territories… (View Post)

Russia is basically a Mongol khanate, with some trappings of modernity. (View Post)

Governments were extractive. Almost everything over subsistence went to benefit the 0.1% and their military establishment. Whenever governments came into windfalls, like Potosi, or monastic lands, th… (View Post)

It is however, as anachronistic as thinking that Ireland, and the Former Dominions are all "part of" Britain. (View Post)

WRT Ukraine, we have done better than Germany, France, and Italy, per capita, but the real stand outs are Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, whose per capita contributions far outshine the… (View Post)