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>when Stop the high school theatrics and read what did i write. The Rubicon was crossed after 2001. You live in that world since a long time.

The thing is, unlike terrorist networks or intel agencies, with training, experienced leaders and so on, most pedos are not cold, rational, competent operators. You don't need perfect secrecy, just good enough will go a long way. Also many countries have an institution of anonymous police tips...

Its a ship that has sailed already - see: terror watchlists. And yet people on terror watchlists sometimes still do terrorism. And those tend to be more organized than pedophiles so they do have knowledge of how others got caught passed around, and on top of that, terrorism is something that...

Police should take a page from intelligence tactics to have the cake and eat it too. Have them be mandatory reporters, but bury that in obscure regulation, and don't arrest reported people as a rule. Instead, covertly investigate them. Of course go with an arrest if it turns out the pedophile is...

Exactly. Even the most power crazed dictators with weirdo ideologies still have some respect for the raw force of major powers. Even North Korea is resorting only to skirmishes, covert actions and saber rattling despite oppressing its own population in every possible way. Despite having both the...

In hindsight the communists that did end up running a major power turned out to be less irrational than feared. Despite having tens of thousands of nuclear devices and massive conventional forces, they have neither started a global nuclear war nor blockaded maritime trade routes of third parties.

The excessively irrational ones tend not to stay alive nearly long enough to build a major power.

What new powers? Since the times when the term "unrestricted submarine warfare" was coined, no major power is going to go overboard restricting other's trade routes, because no one wants to open that can of worms again.

But between a hegemon and regional powers who can and will protect their own local ones, there would not be many areas abandoned completely.

Such is the status of hegemons that for this or that reason, they need at minimum a good chunk of global travel routes protected. The specific motivations and reasonings may vary, but the benefits of such policing apply regardless.

The cultural, military and economic balance of power are separate. As far as culture is concerned Japan is closer to contending US cultural power than Russia or China. How many internationally popular movies, books, bands or videogames from Russia or China have you heard of recently? Also China...

That's a fancy term for "there will be constant conflict until one of the regional powers wins hard enough to be the next hegemon for some time".

Guess she's willing to say absolutely anything, as long as it is clad in PC terms and serves to excuse the professional failure of herself and her unionized profession.

It would be... if only they weren't pushed by the same political coalition. The activist bases may not be exactly the same (though there is a lot of overlap), but as far as voting representatives and other decisionmakers go, it would be very hard to find any who support one but oppose the other...