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The most logical (and historical) outcome of "nationalism and international rivalries" is war, unless weapons of mass destruction appear (and are respected as such). Also the horrors of war itself known, if they are unknown then the chance of war goes up greatly. Appeasement wasn't because of...

Well maybe, but Broken Window Fallacy mostly applies to economic arguments of war as increasing aggregate wealth which isn't a direct correlation with technology. One might as well take natural selection from biology and say that the inefficient were removed / survival of the fittest. I wouldn't...

I am not a naval historian or a military hardware expert but the statement "few ships can equal the survivability" seems false from the start... If you look at a Backfire bomber with a Kh-22 cruise missile with a 1,000 kg bomb moving at Mach 5... how much would this do the unarmored citadel of a...

At risk of derailing thread That is easy, we have history 150 seats to 2 All you have to do is have Paul Martin become leader sometime after Chretien and adopt balanced budgets and use GST as the way... butterfly away the original Conservative policy of raising GST so no politician ever knows...

To counter Americans you would need a completely united country ideologically committed to fight or die (North Korea on steroids) so you could use certain tactics. for example, use small arms ambush over urban areas to completely counter at least rotary wing the way Iraqis did early in the war...

Read the thread, agree it is low quality and potential trolling from the OP (conflation of communism and socialism, use of modern political interpretation when discussing history) but against my better judgment I will post: The reason why the Nazis were successful is they had a little for...

Well maybe it's not possible to fulfil the OPs requirements without some ASB. Because in business especially private sector, a requirement is either formalized, or it's not. The only people into working tons of extra hours without pay are either fresh grads / new to the country / people with...

And that is where I think you and the public at large split ways. In comparison with the private sector, you can. No doubt teachers do great work, and teacher's unions are essential. But that's not really the OP or the ask. The OP is to get teacher's unions more popular, so to do that you have...

This was answered by different posters; namely that there is nothing special about supply side economics and the business cycle (depressions, recessions, stagflation, inflation, etc.) is normal for an economy. In other words, the question itself seems crafted to draw in pro and anti supply...

Well few obvious POD Seems everyone feels that if you work for the government, you shouldn't have the luxury of a union. So change union laws very early on in the 1900's so that belonging to a union while a public servant is illegal. The government gives you a job with taxpayer's money, if...

Well then, you hold contradictory opinions, because Glass Steagall tells banks what they can or can't do with depositor's money. Volcker rule (GS lite) tells banks what they can or can't do with depositor's money, namely they can buy government bonds or municipal bonds, but they can't buy hedge...

No different than saying people can't commit suicide and expect a hefty insurance payout, or that smokers have to pay more insurance premium. If you want the government to be involved, it gets to be involved anything else is hair splitting. It's an implicit argument you are making by...

Hi, Computer programmer here, in most cases absolutely nothing. The worry was embedded systems and infrastructure would fail because it only handles two digits. http://www.fluffycat.com/COBOL/Y2K/ So in sum what would fail is the business logic would fail. For example, send out cheques...

Austrians believe (and many laypersons believe) that the business cycle is caused by market interference. They don't believe in a tug-of-war between supply and demand; everything is demand to them. This belief is core to their theories, an axiom, and the reason why Austrians and Keynesians...

Every indication to me is that government must be involved in some way, shape or form if social order is to be maintained. First, bank runs. Unless you allow bank runs, the government is guaranteeing deposits which means it should have some say in how and when the money is spent. Second, banks...

I will mention elephant in the table full nuclear disarmament or close to it down to a handful of weapons, in return for NATO membership. To achieve this, have a true full blown Russian civil war after the fall of communism... POD after the fall is too late for my idea, must be during the...

I often wonder if Balkanization would be better in the long run for many of the world's problems. Example Ukraine kept nuclear weapons (stopped Crimea crisis?), Iraq was Balkanized after the Iraq invasion (assuming the invasion was a fixed point of course) and so on. I remain unconvinced...

1. Churchill was not a fascist. His "1000-year Empire" speech and his "asian mongrels" quip is often used as proof he was a fascist, but he was not. Just another hyper-nationalist in a sea of hyper-nationalists (and hyper-militarist). If you look at the rest of his career he was tame. 2. Le...

It's a little historical revisionism but no modern army has "assault gun" type tanks save the Germans and then only in reserve units. It's obvious assault guns were just a plug until armor caught up. Which was rather fast after the Russians mass produced sloped armor tanks. Sturms are nice...

The self-sufficiency doctrine had led to shortage of consumer goods in the USSR, and lack of integration with the world economy. Of course after "Nixon goes to Russia" the thaw started and now Russia is the greatest manufacturer of cheap US consumer goods. With resurgent Japan, nowhere else is...