| Force and the threat of force scales incredibly well. The question is just how refined your mechanism for applying it is. Economically, the United States is the most effective country. It got to where it is through a genocide, and it enforces the rules of its economy by threatening force all the way to deadly force in every single commercial interaction, in the interactions of property, and even in the data you're allowed to read and share. Property is the basis of American society and the basis of property is force. The international order is a farce. It's main enforcer, the United States, is not a signatory to half of what it purports to enforce, and violates international law whenever it is convenient. The nation state order is different from the international order, and is based on the coalescing of national power into an entity with the monopoly of violence. At every single level, the current order is based on force. It exists because the mighty wanted it to exist and because it is an efficient way to organize power, not because it's right or even because it's an useful set of rules to apply to every situation. Really, it's mostly a tool to spin narratives and make the use of force more efficient. |