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Anonymous ID: 5bc5ad March 21, 2020, 9:41 a.m. No.8502681   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2689 >>2932 >>2951 >>3165 >>3297 >>3373

>>8502668

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/coronavirus-will-revive-an-all-powerful-state

 

Coronavirus Will Revive an All-Powerful State

 

part 2

 

Threatening the world with a long recession, the coronavirus looks set to inaugurate a turbulent new political and economic era. Its main tendencies will become visible over the months and years to come. But the most revolutionary shift is already in sight.

 

The state, much maligned in recent decades, is back, and in its fundamental role: as Leviathan, the preventer of anarchy, and the ultimate insurance against an intolerable human condition in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

 

In all countries where the coronavirus first spread — China, South Korea, Iran, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Italy — the state leads the war against it, imposing draconian lockdowns on entire populations, ruthlessly sacrificing personal liberty to security. Whether such heavy-handed interventions will eventually succeed — they seem to be working for now in Singapore and China, countries with great state capacity — is still unclear. Nevertheless, in many other countries, ruling politicians seem to realize that they will be judged by their administrative capacity to check the spread of the virus.

Anonymous ID: 5bc5ad March 21, 2020, 9:42 a.m. No.8502689   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2951 >>3165 >>3297 >>3373

>>8502681

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-16/coronavirus-foreshadow-s-bigger-disruptions-in-future

 

Get Ready, A Bigger Disruption Is Coming

 

part 1

 

As global supply chains break, airlines slash flights, borders rise within nation-states, stock exchanges convulse with fear, and recession looms over economies, from China to Germany, Australia to the United States, we can no longer doubt that we are living through extraordinary times.

 

What remains in question, however, is our ability to comprehend them while using a vocabulary derived from decades when globalization seemed a fact of nature, like air and wind. For the coronavirus signals a radical transformation, of the kind that occurs once in a century, shattering previous assumptions.

 

In fact, the last such churning occurred almost exactly a century ago, and it altered the world so dramatically that a revolution in the arts, sciences and philosophy, not to mention the discipline of economics, was needed even to make sense of it.

Anonymous ID: 5bc5ad March 21, 2020, 10:24 a.m. No.8503217   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8503176

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Package_Q_Strike

 

The Package Q Airstrike was the largest air strike of the Gulf War,[5] and the largest strike of F-16s in military history. Many aircraft including the F-117 were used to attack targets in Baghdad, which was the most heavily defended area of Iraq. The same target was hit several times by F-117, and the last package consisted of 17 F-111F on the 19th day of the war.[6] The main target of the strike was the Osirak Nuclear Reactor[citation needed] in Baghdad, which was attacked by the Iranian Air Force in 1980 and again by the Israeli Air Force in 1981, along with many other military sites across the city. Two aircraft were shot down, with two pilots becoming POWs. The majority of the mission goals were met, with the reactor itself severely damaged and most of the secondary targets hit as well.