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Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.
Venezuela, a prod member of ExxonMobil Conoco-Phillips
argentina, most of them will likely flee there, not russia, since putin will likely find a window for you and steal your assets down the line.
it's not called Republic of Samsung for nothing
Taiwan, brought to you by Nvidia
Seems very plausible.
As a kid i always wondered why countries didn't buy up parts of other countries to avoid bloodshed for territory.
I still figure it could work really well for wealthy governments like Switzerland but i now realise that:
A) A country's proper area is very important to it, especially an "ancient" country like Switzerland's neighbours,
B) Citizens do cause a fuss about having their leaders change undemocratically or suddenly - it could make taxes or travel different - and they tend to revolt at sudden unconsented change like that, even if it's only surface level.
I see this being most likely to occur for places like middle eastern oil states, so Oligarchs is definitely the right conditionality. Or big empires like the USA and China
One stratagem is to buy up the territory and then be mindful of the needs of those who are already on it.
The problem is, when we're rich and powerful, it's just way to easy to indulge our racist and classist proclivities, and then do a genocide.
Seriously, we humans just haven't evolved past the bush tribes we were fifty thousand years ago.
The united stated purchased a bunch of territory.
Yes, true. Could have been known as the great merchant empire, but it's overshadowed by their attempts and successes at military conquest and coup d'etats instead.