COVID-19 is the climax to this 4T

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(04-16-2020, 11:00 AM)Isoko Wrote: But to be honest, this whole march towards unity seems to be an American thing if I'm honest. Americans have always been obsessed with trying to build their own version of some kind of kingdom of heaven on Earth. Kind of like a manifest destiny. It is evident in you people.

But the rest of the world is not particularly concerned with it and are happy to go their own path.

In the 1920s Russia also had utopian dreamers like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and before him Vladimir Solovyov. If you want a Chinese, there was Kang Youwei. 
Democritus and the Pythagoreans stood for cosmopolitanism long before America was discovered. The Assyrian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Chinese Empire etc. were all embryonic world states since they aspired to rule "everything under heaven". If I wanted to be cynical, I'd say the nation state was invented by the Israelites. It wouldn't be so prominent without the Bible. Aristotelianism is another source. So it's not a natural human instinct, but an ideology.

Quote:Putin's government functions better then the U.S government right now due to the fact that it is pretty much under one man. If Putin makes a decision, it gets done quickly. No need for courts to get involved, no need for panicking about votes, it just gets done. Take the Corona crisis, Putin pretty much shut the country early and that is why the cases have been minimises alot here.

More than 3000 new cases every day, now you have higher growth than Italy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKCN21Y0WD