[zkmon]

News reporters sometimes consume their own sensationalist content, which was strictly meant for customers only. This actually causes wars at larger scale, which would have been small local conflicts, if starved of visibility they never deserved.

A lot of people won't bother arguing or fighting if there are no observers.

For rural populations in those countries l, it hardly matters who is the ruler at the capital. The response of the West is largely influenced by media, disguised as public opinion, of the Wesst, but not opinion of the populations of the subject countries.

[hnlmorg]

I’m pretty sure it matters to rural villages in Ukraine which has been devastated by Russian bombs.

And to rural communities in China that have been decimated because they don’t follow the official Chinese religion.

Or in Gaza where in May 2025 it was reported that 95% of agricultural land was now unusable.

And living in rural Britain, I’m also noticing the financial burden that global tensions are costing us.

[zkmon]

Global tensions can cause financial burden on rural Britain, because rural Britain is connected to global supply chains. Disconnect those, your tensions are gone. Produce local, consume local, watch local news, celebrate local culture. What's global tension?

[hnlmorg]

It’s impossible to be entirely disconnected.

You’d have to produce your own electricity and water, have no reliance on gas, not require a car nor public transport, not use a mobile phone nor internet, own your own land and have no reliance on banking, and have no reliance on selling any of your produce to anyone who might have those extraordinarily common dependencies.

These kinds of unicorns are going to be so ridiculously rare that you can safely ignore them as a statistical outlier. What’s more, at some point you can guarantee they’re going to come into a situation when thy do eventually depend upon the wider network, eg if they fall ill, break a leg, a family member requires support, their home requires repairs, or they need to buy tools that can’t be built themselves.

[zkmon]

All these needs can be met by your local economy, county level or state level. The real issue is your dependency on global exports and imports. People lived for centuries without global stuff.

[hnlmorg]

But your local economy is dependent on the county economy that’s dependent on the country’s economy.

Yeah local wealth will vary from region to region, but it’s ridiculous to say that local economies operate entirely independently from the national economy.

Especially when you consider that poorer districts depend on government grants while wealthier districts depend on local tax and other spending from residents, who are usually working high payed jobs of which are dependent on the prosperity oh global economy.

it’s all connected.

> People lived for centuries without global stuff.

People also lived for centuries without antibiotics but that doesn’t mean that present civilisation doesn’t depend on it.

We aren’t still living in Saxon Britain. Unless you’re Amish, people have become accustomed to a standard of living that cannot be facilitated when one is entirely separated from global economics and politics.