
“We tend to forget that, although the world map has looked more or less the same since the end of World War II, it has been the norm, throughout history, for large parcels of property to change hands fairly often. Boundaries move. Countries become larger, smaller, or disappear altogether. Large empires are created, swallowing up smaller countries, sometimes lasting for 200 years or more, then inexorably breaking up into smaller remnants. Certainly we are heading into a period of dramatic change—economic change, social change, and certainly political change. Whenever such a period occurs in history, changes in the lines on the map inevitably also occur.”
http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-future-of-countries
Related posts:
Americans Are War Weary ... And The Neocons Don't Like It
How Do You Take Your Poison?
Petting & Walking With Cheetahs in Africa at Mukuni Big 5 Safaris
The Great Default: Taxpayers Cannot Grow Their Way Out of Government's Problem
Chris Becker on South Africa, Gold and the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Bill Bonner: To the Class of 2015, Part 2
Could the Government Force You to Tell Your Deepest Darkest Secrets?
Bob Higgs: The Relentless March of the U.S. Police State
Digital Apocalypse: An Interview with Cody Wilson
Foreign asset reporting before FBAR and FATCA: “loyalty questionnaires” for World War II Japanese Am...
Jacob Hornberger: Shut Down the Nonessential Drug War
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs
Atlanta Airport Abuses Uber and Lyft Drivers and Their Customers
Bill Bonner: How to Disappear Without a Trace
Murray Rothbard: And Now Afghanistan [1980]