moid on Nostr: You capture the land and impose your will on them. Like the entirety of history. You ...

You capture the land and impose your will on them. Like the entirety of history.

You don’t capture the state, dude. You capture the territory. There are so many examples of this happening historically, It boggles my mind how people ignore that.

Look at the middle east today. A state power attacking Israel, and we think they could fight back if they had no state?

Even the Islamic nuts recognise state power is the only way to enforce will. I re-affirm here - states are a necessary evil, even if you think it is only because other people will form a state.