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by Chaebixi 3074 days ago
> ...when geography is no longer the key dividing line in tribal affiliation. You will see a rise in low level violence, and that will be associated with a decline in the primacy of the nation state. But it will reduce the risk of globally devastating conflict.

Not necessarily. A civil war between new global tribes* would still be a globally devastating conflict.

* not necessarily the same ones everywhere